Rédl is a 2018 Czech crime miniseries directed by Jan Hřebejk. It stars Ondřej Sokol as a Military Prosecutor Roman Rédl.
The series depicts atmosphere in a society that complexly seeks to deal with its past. The plot is set in the era of the division of Czechoslovakia: At the end of 1992, military prosecutor Roman Rédl (Ondřej Sokol) fights organized crime against the background of the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Eastern Europe.
The author of the original of this fictional story is screenwriter Miro Šifra. He connected real events in the story: the trial of General Aloiz Lorenz (named Lt. Gen. Josef Ferenc in the series)
and the withdrawal of Soviet troops from territory of East Germany through Czechoslovakia.
The series was introduced on 5 November 2018 and premiered from 11 November to 2 December 2018
on ČT1; was a great success, was awarded at two festivals and received a nomination for the Czech Lion awards.
Plot
Czechoslovakia 1992; the communist regime
has recently fallen and the Soviet occupation army is hastily withdrawing back to Eastern Europe. Wagons leaving the country are crammed with weapons, spare parts, ammunition and other valuables. Two young students, testing a new railway tracking system, discover that some Soviet wagons are inexplicably disappearing from the registers on their way . Both men decide to get to the bottom of the problem. A few days later, one of them is found dead and the other is believed to be on the run. Lieutenant Roman Rédl and a team of investigators are trying to find out what was the reason for the murder and how far the threads of the crime extend knowing it may cross the borders of Czechoslovakia and lead somewhere far to the east.
Cast
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Ondřej Sokol
Ondřej Sokol (born 16 October 1971), is a Czech actor, director, television presenter and translator.
Personal life
Sokol was born at Šumperk, Czechoslovakia. After studying five years at Theatre Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in ...
as Rédl
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David Novotný as Karel
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Martin Hofmann as Jiří
*Roman Polák as General Ferenc
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Petra Hřebíčková
Petra Hřebíčková (born 20 September 1979) is a Czech Republic, Czech stage and film actress. Her film debut was in the 2006 comedy ''I Served the King of England (film), I Served the King of England''. On stage, she acted for six years at th ...
as Ivana
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Michal Isteník
Michal (; ; ) was, according to the first Book of Samuel, a princess of the United Kingdom of Israel; the younger daughter of King Saul, she was the first wife of David (), who later became king, first of Judah, then of all Israel, making ...
as Prosecutor Štift
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Martin Pechlát as Prosecutor Navara
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Kryštof Bartoš as Petr Boček
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Oskar Hes as Jan Frim ml.
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Ján Sedal as Jan Frim st.
*Mária Pavlová as Hana Javornická
*Zuzana Ščerbová as Lenka Richtrová
*Naďa Kovářová as Judge Císařovská
*Helena Šulcová as Jiřina Navarová
Episodes
References
External links
Official website*
Czech crime television series
Czech Television original programming
Czech drama television series
Czech thriller television series
Czech LGBTQ-related television shows
2018 Czech television series debuts
Czech television miniseries
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