Prague, March 21 (CTK) – Slovak company Leca Production is preparing a feature film inspired by the life of Alexander Dubcek, leader of the Prague Spring reform movement in 1968, called “Human Face,” that will be premiered in two years, producer Andrej Leca told journalists on Monday.
The Prague Spring from 1968 wanted to liberalise the Communist regime. First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSC) Dubcek embodied the attempt at installing “socialism with a human face,” eventually suppressed by the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968.
Though inspired by Dubcek, the film will not be his biography, Leca said.
Leca Production does not yet have experiences with making films. It has invited for cooperation Russian film director Andrei Konchalovsky who is helping to write the scenario and has invented the name itself.
“Dubcek’s story is a story of a man who crossed a border and had the courage to stand up against fear,” Konchalovsky said in a press release.
“He stopped being afraid of wiretapping, secret agents and an occasional barking from Moscow, deciding to act as a free man,” he added.
The film is to be premiered in 2018, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Prague Spring and Czechoslovakia’s occupation.
This will be probably a coproduction of Slovakia, the Czech Republic, France and Italy. The budget is not to be higher than five million euros, Leca said.
Dubcek, a native from the Slovak village of Uhrovec, West Slovakia, was forced to retire from politics after 1968. He returned to it after the Communist regime was ousted in 1989 when he became chairman of the Czechoslovak parliament.
In November 1992, he died from the injuries he suffered in a car crash, at the age of 70.
