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Smrť ministra (2009)

Smrť ministra poster
Genre
drama film
Country
Slovakia

How it feels

This is a biographical television film about Vladimir Clementis, a Slovak communist politician who served as foreign minister of Czechoslovakia. It shows his rise in the government after World War Two, his arrest in 1951, and his execution in 1952 after a fabricated trial.

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What happens

Smrť ministra je slovenský životopisný televízny film založený na príbehu slovenského komunistického politika Vladimíra Clementisa, ktorý od apríla 1945 zastával funkciu štátneho tajomníka ministerstva zahraničných vecí Československej republiky (ČSR) a po februárovom prevrate (1948) bol ministrom zahraničných vecí, avšak v januári 1951 bol zbavený funkcie, zatknutý a neskôr začlenený do vykonštruovaného procesu s tzv. protištátnym sprisahaneckým centrom pod vedením Rudolfa Slánskeho, v ktorom bol v novembri 1952 odsúdený na smrť a 3. decembra 1952 popravený. Clementisa stvárnil Ján Kroner. Film vznikol v produkcii Slovenskej televízie (STV). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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