Mašín brothers film gets its Czech premiere

The film ‘Brothers’, a retelling of the Cold War story of the controversial Mašín brothers, premiers in Czech cinemas on Thursday.

The film, which has been selected by the Czech Film and Television Academy as the Czech Oscar nominee for 2024, was written by screenwriter Marek Epstein and directed by Tomáš Mašín, a distant relative of the Mašíns.

It dramatises the events surrounding the Mašín brothers forming an armed resistance group and escaping from communist Czechoslovakia to West Berlin in 1953.