Pre-WWII Czech democratic politician Milada Horáková was one of the first victims of the communist regime in Czechoslovakia. Opposing the 1948 coup but not leaving the country, she was arrested and tried for treason on fabricated charges in a show trial broadcast on the radio.
Acting
Zurer's controlled ferocity—she never begs for your sympathy.
Direction
Mrnka lets the horror unfold with bureaucratic coldness.
Production
Painstaking period detail that traps you in suffocating authenticity.
Director
David Mrnka
Ayelet Zurer
Milada Horáková
Robert Gant
Bohuslav Horák
Taťjana Medvecká
Jana Horáková Age 57
Vica Kerekes
Milada's Sister
Igor Orozovič
Sister's Husband
Alena Mihulová
Maruska - Horák's Housemaid
Vladimír Javorský
Alois Schmidt
Marián Mitaš
Karel Sváb
Anna Geislerová
Ludmila Brozová-Polednová
Ivana Chýlková
Milada's Cellmate
Dagmar Bláhová
Frantiska Plamínková (as Dasha Blahova)
Jitka Smutná
Anezka Hodinová-Spurná
Markéta Hrubešová
Anděla
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Horáková was the only woman executed for political reasons in communist Czechoslovakia; her trial was studied internationally as propaganda theater.
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