Waves
2024 Czech film · Released July 1, 2024
Waves (Czech: Vlny) is a 2024 historical thriller drama film written and directed by Jiří Mádl and set during the Prague Spring and subsequent Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia. 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 and the 2nd highest-grossing Czech film of all time.
Cast ages at release (July 1, 2024)
- Vojtěch Vodochodský, as Tomáš Havlík: 29
- Tatiana Pauhofová: 40
- Vojtěch Kotek, as Jiří Dienstbier: 36
- Marika Šoposká, as Secretary Jarunka: 34
- Matyáš Řezníček, as Karel Jezdinský: 32
- Petr Lněnička: 44
- Stanislav Majer: 46
- Daniel Tůma, as Karásek: 32
- Tomáš Weber, as Holenda: 24
- Martin Hofmann, as Luboš Dobrovský: 46
- Jan Nedbal, as Zdeněk Šimr: 33
- Tomáš Maštalír: 46
- Jacob Erftemeijer: 34
- Igor Bareš, as Hrabský: 58
- Hana Kusnjerová, as Marie Weinerová: 39
- Petr Halíček, as technician Jaroslav Pavelka: 49
- Ondřej Stupka, as Pavel Havlík: 19
- Jan Novotný: 70