Elective Affinities

Elective Affinities

85 mins | Documentary | Nov. 8, 1968

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.

Elective Affinities

85 mins | Documentary | Nov. 8, 1968

Elective Affinities
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.
Producers Krátký film Praha – Studio dokumentárních filmů
Original title Spřízněni volbou
Directors Karel Vachek
Writers Karel Vachek

Cast

Ludvík Svoboda

as Self

Ota Šik

as Self

Jan Procházka

as Self

Josef Špaček

as Self

Gustáv Husák

as Self

Karel Kosík

as Self

Jiří Hájek

as Self

Pavel Kohout

as Self

Josef Borůvka

as Self

Vasil Biľak

as Self

Josef Plojhar

as Self