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‘Waves’ Review: Jiří Mádl’s Drama on the End of the Prague Spring Marks a Timely Portrait of the Power of Principled Journalists
Jiří Mádl’s muscular period drama, playing KVIFF, follows radio journalists refusing to enter their government's propaganda machine.
He’s an everyman who unwittingly finds himself working at the radio station and witnessing firsthand how journalist luminary Milan Weiner (Stanislav Majer) righteously stands his ground against state-sanctioned censorship and intimidation. But unlike his younger brother Pavel (Ondřej Stupka), who goes out into the streets in protest and sees in such activities a powerful sense of civic duty he must abide by (and which Weiner rightly represents), Tomáš is more skittish. The freedom of the press is here no mere abstract concept; it’s an embodied moral imperative that rests on professionals who constantly had to make tough personal choices that could put them at odds with colleagues, friends and even family.
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