Uploaded by InFilm Praha on 2017-02-09.

The Czech Heritage Museum and The Beltonian Theatre present Czech Film Night. This month's screening is the 2016 film nominated for 14 Czech Lion awards. A Prominent Patient is the story of Jan Masaryk, son of the beloved founder of the first free Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.

Jan Masaryk served in the military in WWI, then as a diplomat, including as the Czech ambassador to London and returned to Prague after WWII only to incur trouble with the Communist regime.

A couple short clips from a radio address shortly after the Munich Agreement.

Full title reads: "MASARYK DECIDES". Czechoslovakia. Jan Masaryk urges people of Czechoslovakia to accept the new communist government. Hand shaking. Close up shot of happy faces. Hand shaking. Close up shot of Jan Masaryk in a group. Long shot of settling in the Chamber.

His death, falling from a window of Cernin Palace the day before he was set to leave the country, was ruled a suicide. However, after the Czechs threw off Soviet control, new investigations were held. With  new forensic evidence, the ruling was changed to murder. Some theorize that the murder was planned by government officials who spread rumors that Masaryk was unstable in order to promote the suicide ruling.

Read more about Masaryk here: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jan-Masaryk/media/367733/144899

Unissued / Unused material. M/S Jan Masaryk, UNO (United Nations Organisation) delegate, sat at his desk. M/S as he speaks about his visit to America. Cataloguer's note: date of item: 12/2/1947. FILM ID:2126.01 A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT'S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES.