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The Art of Dissent (2021)
Directed by James Le Sueur
Documentary · 1h 45m
"The Art of Dissent" celebrates the resilience and power of artistic engagement in Czechoslovakia before and after the 1968 Soviet-led invasion. The documentary's main protagonists - Václav Havel, banned singer Marta Kubisová, and the underground rock group the Plastic People of the Universe (PPU) - became the most recognizable dissidents during the 1970-80s. Havel bridged the disparate clusters of individuals and fused the literary, musical, political, and philosophical nonviolent elements into a hybrid network that eventually toppled the totalitarian regime in 1989.
Cast
Timothy Garton Ash
Self - Interviewee
Joan Bakewell
BBC Interviewer - BBC Archival Film
Shirley Bassey
Self - Subject (archive footage)
K
Kamila Bendova
Self - Interviewee
Mikhail Gorbachev
Self - Subject (archive footage)
Tenzin Gyatso
Self - Subject (archive footage)
Robert F. Kennedy
Self - Subject (archive footage)
Martin Luther King Jr.
Self - Subject (archive footage)
Frank Zappa
Self - Subject (archive footage)
Crew
- Director
- James Le Sueur
- Writer
- James Le Sueur
Details
- Release date
- 2021-10-05
- Runtime
- 1h 45m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- Czech, English
- Countries
- Czech Republic, United States of America
- Production
- FRMOL production, Česká televize