Movies and TvShows featuring "prague-spring-1968" theme.

At the end of the 1960s, when the air is filled with rock-and-roll and student rebellions are changing the world, the older of two brothers joins a prestigious newsroom of the public radio broadcaster. Not long after, he finds himself in the middle of a dangerous conflict between journalists and the secret service.

The story of Sebastien, a seriously ill 25-year-old, and his mother, whose lives were also affected by the events of 1968 in Czechoslovakia.

Beloved follows the story of a divorced shoe salesman in 1970s Paris who falls into a deep depression after his ex-wife dies. He is reunited with his estranged daughter and the two develop a complex relationship. Along the way, he navigates his own romantic entanglements, including a love triangle and an impossible love. Full of heartbreak and tragedy, Beloved delves into the depths of human emotions and the complexities of relationships.

A moving account, in his own words, of the personal life and work of the brilliant Czech filmmaker Miloš Forman (1932-2018): his tragic childhood, his major contribution to the cultural movement known as the Czech New Wave, his exile in Paris, his troubled days in New York, his rise to stardom in Hollywood; a complete existence in the service of cinema.

Invasion is a docudrama that tells the story of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. The film explores the political persecution and state-terrorism that occurred during this period, focusing on the Prague Spring and the subsequent occupation by Soviet forces. It provides an in-depth look at the impact of the invasion on the Czechoslovakian people and the central European region.

In 1968, a Romanian doctor takes a car trip with his two sons to attend a medical conference in East Germany. Along the way, they reminisce about their past, navigate political tensions, and confront family dynamics. The trip becomes a journey of self-discovery and healing for the father and his sons.

1974 Czechoslovak drama film directed by Karel Steklý.

Young director Honza David films the Russian invasion in in Prague in August 1968. With Eva the love of his life he tries to get out of the country. He wants to bring the explosive material to Vienna, to the director of the Austrian Television Helmut Zilk. He knows Eva very well but the Czech Secret Service even better ...

A drama that tells the story of the physician and politician MUDr. František Kriegel, the hero of the Prague Spring of 1968, who was arrested and kidnapped to Moscow on the night of August 21st together with five leaders of the party and the state (Dubček, Černík, Smrkovský, Špaček and Šimon). He was the only Czechoslovak politician who managed to stand up to Brezhnev in Moscow captivity, even under the threat of liquidation, and not to sign the Moscow Protovol which meant agreeing to the occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968.

Documentary showing the Czechoslovakian political landscape in March 1968, when president Antonin Novotny, a hardline Stalinist, stepped down and moderate communist Ludvik Svoboda was elected. Five months later, in August 68, the Prague Spring would end with the military intervention of the Warsaw Pact.

68 (2008) is a documentary film that explores the events and societal changes that took place around the world during the year 1968, including protests, demonstrations, and political upheaval. It delves into the impact of the Martin Luther King Jr. assassination, the Vietnam War, the Soviet Occupation of Czechoslovakia, and other significant events that defined the era of 1968.

How does it feel like to become an occupier without your own intentions? With known but also never published archival materials from the whole Europe and Russia we tell a family story of the director Anna Kryvenko about how the big politics is destroying the lives of ordinary people. Just couple of years ago the director found a family secret of her grand-uncle who came to occupy Czechoslovakia in 1968 as a Soviet soldier. When searching for grand-uncle's story the author touches themes like fragmentation of personal and national memory, inherited guilt, interpretation of history, media manipulation, relationship towards nowadays Russia, but also relationship of Czechs and Slovaks towards foreigners - themes very actual in our times.

Filmmaker Jan Nemec and his crew risked their lives to create this historic documentary account of the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. The award-winning work is the only filmed record of the invasion. Oratorio for Prague began as a study of the liberalization of Czechoslovakia and then continued when the Russian forces moved in. The gripping footage was broadcast by television, providing the first report of the event. In addition to the news footage, the film features never-before-viewed scenes taken prior to the invasion that crushed Prague's anti-Communist movement.

Showing his own original footage of Prague Spring, director Evald Schorm describes the atmosphere these days in 1968.

Documentary filmmaker Jan Sikl came across several hours of footage showing the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in private film archives. 53 years later, historical memory awakens from a long slumber with this reconstruction of the occupation, a cinematic adventure of a truly archeological nature.

This personal essay relates the perception of space to the mental universe of screenwriter and director Pavel Juráček who found his “truly ideal place” in the town of Příbram. The sensitive combination of journal entries, intimate notes, and film fragments tries to break down conventional storytelling techniques to build an original world of timeless thinking.

A film about the phenomenon of Alexander Dubček, a Czechoslovak politician, one of the most prominent personalities of the Prague Spring of 1968, author of the concept of “socialism with a human face”.