Synopsis
The Man Who Stood In the Way (2023) is a Czech-Lithuanian-Ukrainian historical drama directed by Petr Nikolaev — watch it online on iFILM. August 21, 1968: Soviet troops cross into Czechoslovakia. František Kriegel — physician, politician — is arrested alongside Dubček and four other state leaders and flown to Moscow.
Tomáš Töpfer plays Kriegel in the Kremlin sessions that followed. The captive delegation was pushed to sign the Moscow Protocol, the document that legitimised the occupation. Every other leader signed. Kriegel refused. Alone. Brezhnev applied pressure; liquidation was put on the table. He held his position.
Zuzana Mauréry co-stars. Produced across three countries — Czech Republic, Lithuania, Ukraine — at a moment when the film's central question carries obvious contemporary weight: what does a single refusal cost one person, and what can it mean for everyone else? Stream The Man Who Stood In the Way (2023) online on iFILM.
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