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'Burning Bush' is a 2013 three-part miniseries created for HBO by Polish director Agnieszka Holland. Based on real characters and events, this haunting drama focuses on the personal sacrifice of a Prague history student, Jan Palach, who set himself on fire in 1969 in protest against the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia in the previous year. Dagmar Bureov, a young female lawyer, became part of his legacy by defending Palach's family in a trial against the communist government, a regime which tried to dishonour Palachs sacrifice, a heroic action for the freedom of Czechoslovakia.

The fight for freedom, for moral principles, self-sacrifice and protest in those desperate times led to the moral unification of a repressed nation, which twenty years later defeated the totalitarian regime. The anniversary of Jan Palachs death inspired a new generation of students to start protests that led to the eventual fall of communism in Czechoslovakia, part of the eventual destruction of the Iron Curtain.

Lawyer Dagmar Bureov, who spent her life representing dissident opposition leaders, became the first Minister of Justice in a free Czechoslovakia.

The film is dedicated to Jan Palach, Jan Zajc, Even Plocek, Ryszard Siwiec and to all who sacrificed their lives while fighting for freedom.

At the International TV Festival in Monte Carlo, Ivan Trojan was awarded the prize of Golden Nymph for the Best Actor in a mini-series. It has been selected to be screened in the Special Presentation section at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival.

The series was later edited into a film. The premiere of the film version was set to be on 12 September 2013.http://www.kinobox.cz/clanek/8188-do-ceskych-kin-miri-horici-ker-v-nove-sestrihane-verzi Czech The film was originally selected as the Czech entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 86th Academy Awards. However AMPAS disqualified the film, citing regulations that the film must not have initially appeared on television. The mini-series aired on Czech TV eight months prior to the re-edited version that appeared in cinemas.

Cast



*Tatiana Pauhofov as JUDr. Dagmar Bureov, a lawyer of the Palach family

*Jaroslava Pokorn as Libue Palachov, Jan Palach's mother

*Petr Stach as Ji Palach, Palach's brother

*Ivan Trojan as Major Jire, Public security (police) officer who investigates Palach's death (fictional character)

*Igor Bare as Major Doekal, secret police StB ("state secret security") (fictional character)

*Vojtch Kotek as Ondej Trvnek, a student activist (composite character)

*Jan Buda as Radim Bure, Bureov's husband

*Adrian Jastraban as Vladimr Charouz, Bureov's superior

*Patrik Drgel as Pavel Janda

*Denny Ratajsk as Lieutenant Boek, Jire's workmate

*Tom Dianika as Mlko

*Jenovfa Bokov as Vlaka Charouzov, Charouz's daughter

*Ivana Uhlov as Judge Orlov

*Stanislav Zindulka as JUDr. Sldeek, lawyer, colleague of Bureov

*Ondej Mal as JUDr. Knapp, lawyer, colleague of Bureov

*Martin Huba as Vilm Nov, a communist official who defames Palach

*Ma Prochzkov as Zuzanka Bureov, Bureov's daughter

*Tereza Korejsov as Lucinka Bureov, Bureov's daughter

*Alois vehlk as Colonel Horyna, high-ranking Public security commander, superior of Jire and Doekal

*Hana Marie Maroukov as Ilona Palachov, Ji Palach's wife

*Miroslav Krobot as conductor Jiika

*Emma Smetana as Hana kov

*Tajana Medveck as MUDr. Jana Zikov, a doctor who treats Palach at the hospital

*Pavel Cisovsk as comrade Hazura

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