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.
Acting
Vodochodský's eyes betray everything his character cannot say.
Direction
Mádl turns radio booths into pressure cookers of paranoia.
Production
Period-perfect Prague that breathes with impending doom.
Director
Jiří Mádl
Vojtěch Vodochodský
Tomáš Havlík
Ondřej Stupka
Pavel Havlík
Tatiana Pauhofová
Věra Šťovíčková
Stanislav Majer
Milan Weiner
Vojtěch Kotek
Jiří Dienstbier
Marika Šoposká
Jarunka
Petr Lněnička
Jan Petránek
Martin Hofmann
Luboš Dobrovský
Petr Halíček
Jaroslav Pavelka
Matyáš Řezníček
Karel Jezdinský
Jacob Erftemeijer
Ludvík Čermák
Jan Nedbal
Zdeněk Šimr
Tomáš Maštalír
Karel Hoffmann
Igor Bareš
Hrabský
Michaela Majerníková
Jezdinská
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film resurrects Czech Radio's actual 1968 resistance — staff who barricaded themselves to broadcast the Soviet invasion live, some dying for the microphone.
Director Mádl's grandfather worked at Czech Radio during this era; the film began as excavated family silence.
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