Waves

“A broadcast that will change history.”

Tomáš Havlík (Vojtěch Vodochodský) arrives at the public radio newsroom at the end of the 1960s, a young reporter beside colleagues like Věra Šťovíčková (Tatiana Pauhofová) in a building the secret service already watches. Jiří Mádl sets the story during the Prague Spring and the Warsaw Pact invasion. What stays is the newsroom itself, the microphones and the rock-and-roll in the air, held in a grainy 70s grit.