starring Vojtěch Vodochodský, Táňa Pauhofová, Stanislav Majer
directed by Jiří Mádl
131 minutes
in Czech with English subtitles
Tomáš Havlík (Vojtěch Vodochodský), takes a job as an engineer at a radio station in Prague in 1968. Milan Weiner (Stanislav Majer) runs the section of the radio station for which Tomáš works. Tomáš and the others in that section go to great efforts to broadcast the truth despite pushback from the station's general manager and the national government of Czechoslovakia. They are really put to the test when Russia invades Czechoslovakia in the summer of 1968.
I found this movie to be both moving and a bit bland. I'm not sure if the characters in the movie were real people, based on real people, or composite characters. It is unclear to me how much of the movie was fact and how much was made up. I couldn't help but think of Russia's recent invasion of Ukraine as I watched this movie.
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