INVASION {PART 3 OF 3} (TV)
Summary
Continued from T83:0592. Part three of this three-part docudrama on the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia on Aug. 20, 1968, based on Czech official Zdenek Mlynar's account and supplemented by independent research. Highlights include the following: Soviets are unable to break Dubcek and Svoboda, and to set up a collaborationist government; Mlynar flies to Moscow as a delegate for the 14th Congress of the Czech Communist Party with instructions not to sign an agreement until Soviet troops withdraw from Prague; Mlynar meets Dubcek who has been interrogated but refuses to sign anything; Czechs ask Mlynar to draft a statement justifying the invasion; the Czech Presidium debates the wisdom of signing the Soviet statement; the signing ceremony develops into a heated exchange between Dubcek and Brezhnev, and the Soviets leave; Mlynar apologizes, the signing takes place, and Czechs return to Prague; and concludes with an update on what happened to the members of the Presidium in the years since 1968.
Details
- NETWORK: Granada (United Kingdom)
- DATE: November 30, 1979
- RUNNING TIME: 0:54:56
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T83:0593
- GENRE: Drama
- SUBJECT HEADING: Czechoslovakia - History - 1968; Docudrama; International Collection - United Kingdom; U S S R - Foreign relations - Czechoslovakia
- SERIES RUN: Granada (United Kingdom) - TV, 1980
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Eva Kolouchova … Producer
- Leslie Woodhead … Producer, Director
- David Boulton … Producer, Writer
- Zdenek Mlynar … Adapted by
- Paul Wilson … Based on the translation by
- Richard Karz … Based on the translation by
- Paul Chapman … Cast, Mlynar
- Julian Glover … Cast, Dubcek
- Paul Hardwick … Cast, Brezhnev
- Ray McAnally … Cast, Smrkovsky
- Ewan Hooper … Cast, Cernik
- Hugh Morton … Cast, Svoboda
- Jeffrey Siegal … Cast, Kriegel
- Alan Tilvern … Cast, Bilak
- Peter Schofield … Cast, Kolder
- Terrence Soall … Cast, Husak
- Anthony Langdon … Cast, Sadovsky
- Michael Cronin … Cast, Spacek
- Barrie Cookson … Cast, Simon
- Michael Wynne … Cast, Slavik
- Philip Anthony … Cast, Piller
- Peter Miles … Cast, Indra
- Michael Mellinger … Cast, Jakes
- Carlos Douglas … Cast, Rigo
- Bill Croasdale … Cast, Kapek
- Cyril Varley … Cast, Svestka
- John de Frates … Cast, Barbirek
- Brian Spink … Cast, Chervonenko
- Edward Jewesbury … Cast, Suslov
- John Woodnutt … Cast, Kosygin
- Alick Hayes … Cast, Podgorny
- Raymond Mason … Cast, Russian Officer
- Alexei Jawdokimov … Cast, Russian Officer
- Jon Rumney … Cast, Russian Officer
- Edwin Brown … Cast, Russian Officer
- D. Geoff Tomlinson … Cast, Russian Officer
- Alan Frith … Cast, Russian Officer
- Derek Hockridge … Cast, Russian Officer
- Igor Gridneff … Cast, Russian Officer
- David Calladine … Cast, Russian Soldier
- Will Tacey … Cast, Russian Soldier
- Leon Eagles … Cast, Czech Official
- Arnold Diamond … Cast, Czech Official
- Carol MacReady … Cast, Czech Official