The Case of the Dead Deadman

A Czech documentary investigation revisits the mysterious 1948 death of Jan Masaryk, the Czechoslovak foreign minister whose body was found beneath a window of the Czernin Palace, in what was officially ruled a suicide but has long been the subject of speculation and conspiracy theories. The film examines forensic evidence, historical testimony, and competing explanations to explore whether Masaryk jumped, fell accidentally, or was murdered in the wake of the Communist takeover of Czechoslovakia.