Oratorio for Prague
★ 6.8 · 1968 · 29m · Documentary
A unique document of the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, what began as a documentary about the liberalization of Czechoslovakia evolved into a record of the entry of Russian tanks into Prague.
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