Elective Affinities

Movie · 1h 25m

Starring Ludvík Svoboda, Oldřich Černík, Alexander Dubček, Antonín Novotný

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.