Waves probes its moral concerns through an intimate tale of two brothers trying to survive.

The spine of any successful film is its screenplay, and the precision with which Mádl has created and assembled the building blocks of his narrative is the source of his film’s strength.

Jiří Mádl’s ambitious, emotionally gripping and sweeping film, Waves...is about journalistic integrity, heroism in the darkest and most difficult times and fighting a regime that means to crush free speech...

Stylistically, Mádl’s work harkens back to the handsome art cinema that used to come out of Eastern Europe before the Wall came down; at the same time, he is not afraid to roughen up proceedings.