A Prominent Patient

Mar 9, 2017

1h 46m

★ 6.0

Czechoslovakia vs. Nazi Germany

Overview

In 1939, Czech diplomat Jan Masaryk flees to the United States to escape his recent past: Germany has invaded Czechoslovakia and he is now a man with no nation; because, as the Czechoslovak ambassador in London, he failed to win the support of the British and could not avert the fall of his country and the outbreak of the World War II.

Genres

Drama

History

Production Companies

In Film Praha

RTVS

Česká televize

ZDF

ARTE

Rudolf Biermann Slovakia

A Prominent Patient Trailers

Cast

Masaryk

Karel Roden

Dr. Stein

Hanns Zischler

Marcia Davenport

Arly Jover

Edvard Beneš

Oldřich Kaiser

Neville Chamberlain

Paul Nicholas

Georges Bonnet

Milton Welsh

Lord Halifax

Dermot Crowley

Sir Robert Vansittart

Tim Preece

Annie Higgins

Gina Bramhill

Sir Henry Higgins

James Flynn

Nurse Blake

Susan Lawson-Reynolds

Waitress

Katya Boirand

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