Elective Affinities (08/11/1968)

Production : Krátký film Praha – Studio dokumentárních filmů

Synopsis

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.