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HOW FAR WILL YOU GO TO SAVE THE COUNTRY The film is based on the extraordinary true story of one of the most scorned figures od Czech and European history, a Minister in the Protectorate government, Emanuel Moravec, and apostle of collaboration, betrayal and moral decay. The unsightly countenance of the bloated bald head with buggy eyes brings to mind a parody of a fiend taken from comics. We would expect that only a fool would fall for Nazi ideology... But when we take a closer look at Moravec´s personality, we get a completely different picture: a refined, educated, rational man, who took words such as "fatherland, nation and democracy" deadly seriously. In 1938, E. Moravec had a career as a legionnaire, professional soldier, renowned military theoretician and well-known journalist, and he expected to climb the social ladder. But then the Munich Agreement was signed and Moravec was pulled into the vortex of history. As this tragic figure strides towards his bitter end in this horrific time, we are left with the unpleasant question: "How would we have acted in his place?"
HD | 83´, 82´ | © 2020
director(s): Biser A. Arichtev
producer(s): Czech Television, Rolling media s. r. o., Český rozhlas
scriptwriter(s): Lucie Konášová, Josef Konáš
director of photography: Karel Fairaisl
cast: Marián Labuda ml., André Hennicke, Viktor Preiss, Dana Droppová, Jiří Vyorálek, Vladimír Polívka, Ondřej Vetchý, Vítězslav Jandák, Ondřej Malý, Pavel Kříž, Milan Kňažko, Detlef Bothe, Oskar Hes, Filip Březina, Rebeka Poláková, Karel Hábl, Jan Novotný, Pavel Soukup, Antonín Procházka and others
rights available: TV, Video, Internet
original language: Czech
subtitles available: English (parts 1, 2)