Simon Goff - WAVES (Vlny) (Radio Prague) (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Vinyl)

WAVES
(Vlny) (Radio Prague)
Director Jiří Mádl
Music Simon Goff
Label Plaza Mayor Company Ltd
Czech Republic’s Official Entry to the 97th Academy Awards
Waves (Vlny) is a 2024 Czech-Slovak historical thriller drama film directed by Jiří Mádl and set during the Prague Spring and subsequent Warsaw Pact invarion of Csechoslovakia. The film had its world premiere at the 58th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival where it won the audience award. It was selected as the Czech entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 97th Academy Awards
Waves entered theatres on 15 August 2024 and became the highest-grossing Czech film of 2024.
Story revolves around the Editorial Office of International Life of the Czechoslovak Radio. It works under the leadership of Milan Weiner, a journalistic icon. Other journalists include Věra Šťovíčková, Jiří Dienstbier, Luboš Dobrovský or Jan Petránek. Young Tomáš gets among them a bit by mistake as the work in the editorial office was the dream of his younger brother Pavel and Tomáš' main concern is to protect his brother. Little does he know that the local editors are watched by State Security (StB). Tomáš is forced to sign cooperation with StB if he wants to protect his brother who along with his classmates participates in illegal activity. Tomáš gets closer to journalists in the office especially with Věra which leaves him conflicted between concern for his brother's safety and his own conscience. When Warsaw Pact invades Czechoslovakia he refuses to collaborate with occupants and helps journalists to broadcast uncensored information about the invasion of Warsaw Pact troops and call for Passive resistance to the occupiers. He risks his own life to sustain broadcast as long as possible.