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[Machine Translation] Shortlisted for Academy Award for Best International Feature Film & Czech Republic's representative! The No. 1 Czech film of the year 2024 at the box office! A heart-wrenching and tense true story about the radio station employees who continued to broadcast the truth and fight for freedom and citizens even after the Soviet invasion and occupation of the station in 1968! --The International Press Department of Czechoslovakia's state-run radio station, under the leadership of its director, Milan Weiner, is working to resist government censorship and achieve a free press. Tomasz, who takes care of his younger brother Paja on behalf of his deceased parents, used to work at the central communications bureau, but was assigned to work in the press department by order of his boss. He is forced to cooperate with the StB (State Security Service), which monitors the press and Weiner, in exchange for letting his brother, who is involved in the student movement, go unnoticed. Tomasz, who has witnessed Weiner and his colleagues' sincere efforts to report the truth, is trusted and entrusted with his work, but he is torn between his concern for his brother and his conscience. When the Prague Spring arrives and the nation rejoices, Tomasz is summoned to the Central News Agency and ordered to report an astonishing story on the radio. The special features include a trailer.

*Rated 12-and-over.

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アカデミー賞国際長編映画部門ショートリスト&チェコ代表! 2024年チェコ映画年間興行成績No.1! 1968年＜プラハの春＞、ソ連軍の侵攻で放送局を占拠されても、市民と自由のために、真実の放送を続け闘ったラジオ局員たちの姿に胸が熱くなる、緊迫の実話!! ――チェコスロバキア国営ラジオ局の国際報道部は、部長ミラン・ヴァイナーの下、政府の検閲に抵抗し自由な報道を目指して活動している。亡き両親に代わり弟パーヤの世話をするトマーシュは、中央通信局で働いていたが、上司命令により報道部で働くことになった。それは、学生運動に参加している弟を見逃す代わりに、報道部とヴァイナーを監視する国家保安部〈StB〉に協力させるためだった。ヴァイナーや局員たちの真実を報道しようとする真摯な姿勢を間近で目にし、信頼され仕事も任せられるようになったトマーシュは、弟の心配と良心の呵責で葛藤する。やがて、"プラハの春"が訪れ、国民が歓喜する中、トマーシュは中央通信局に呼ばれ、驚くべき内容をラジオで報道するよう命じられる―。特典映像4分には、予告編を収録。