Burning Bush – Die Helden von Prag: Staffel 1

Burning Bush (Part 1)

1h 23min - Student Jan Palach sets himself on fire at Wenceslas Square in Prague in January 1969, insisting that there will be other ‘torches’ unless the oppression of Czechoslovakia by Soviet forces is relaxed.

Part 2

Burning Bush (Part 3)

1h 17min - Eight months after Jan’s death, Dagmar Buresova and the Palach family are still trying to set the record straight, but witnesses refuse to come forward for fear of reprisals from the Communist regime.