Elective Affinities

About Elective Affinities

Documentary showing the Czechoslovakian political landscape in March 1968, when president Antonin Novotny, a hardline Stalinist, stepped down and moderate communist Ludvik Svoboda was elected. Five months later, in August 68, the Prague Spring would end with the military intervention of the Warsaw Pact.

Elective Affinities (1968) is a documentary film directed by Karel Vachek. Released in November 1968, it runs 85 minutes.

Ludvík Svoboda appears as Self, Oldřich Černík as Self, Alexander Dubček as Self, and Antonín Novotný as Self. Written by Karel Vachek.

Members will find czechoslovakia, prague spring (1968), and politics in it. In the United States it streams on DocAlliance Films.