Elective Affinities (1968)

5.0/10 • 85 min • Documentary

Overview

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.

Cast

Ludvík Svoboda

Alexander Dubček

Antonín Novotný

Self

Gustáv Husák

Self

Jiří Hájek

Self

Pavel Kohout

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