Exactly one year ago tonight the armies of five Warsaw Pact countries invaded their neighbour and ally Czechoslovakia. By midnight more than half a million troops, mostly Soviet, were moving into position to 'defend Socialism.'
There followed eight days of confusion, hope, and despair for the people of Czechoslovakia, eight days that ended in indefinite occupation. One prominent Czech who witnessed those days told the story in this film, first shown last autumn.
Tonight Kamil Winter, former head of television news and current affairs in Prague, looks back on 'Eight days in August,' and tells the continuing story of Czechoslovakia since the invasion of 1968.