Austrian director Franz Novotny sets his engaging film during the August 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion of Prague, Czechoslovakia, focusing on an up-and-coming, outspoken Czech director named Honza David (Krystof Hádek) who captures the siege on film. David then attempts to flee to Vienna with the intent of taking his film to Helmut Zilk (Johannes Zeiler), the director of Austrian Television, who also happens to be a suitor of David’s love, actress Eva (Vica Kerekes). Despite their romantic rivalry, the two men work together to expose the truth of Russia’s the behind-the-scenes politic machinations to bring Czecholsovakia under Eastern Bloc control.
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