Václav Havel
Birthday: 1936-10-05
Place of Birth: Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
Biography: Václav Havel (5 October 1936 – 18 December 2011) was a Czech statesman, author, poet, playwright, and former dissident. Havel served as the last president of Czechoslovakia from 1989 until the dissolution of Czechoslovakia on 31 December 1992 and then as the first president of the Czech Republic from 1993 to 2003. He was the first democratically elected president of either country after the fall of communism. As a writer of Czech literature, he is known for his plays, essays, and memoirs.
Movies
Zappa
With the help of more than 10,000 dedicated Zappa fans, this is the long-awaited definitive document...
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Citizen Havel
The documentary explores the presidency of Václav Havel, a poet who unexpectedly became president. T...
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I am Fishead
A provocative snapshot of the world we live in. It is a well-known fact that our society is structu...
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Lou Reed: Rock and Roll Heart
An incredible retracing of the evolution of Reed's remarkable career over three decades. Filled with...
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Why Havel?
The first part of the block will be dedicated to the monograph Vojtěch Jasný: The Film Poet in Exile...
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Czech Made Man
The movie is based on the narrative of a Czech multimillionaire who achieved success not by strippin...
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Václav Havel : L'éternel insurgé
Five years after stepping down as President of the Republic, Vaclav Havel returns to the theater wit...
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Havel Speaking, Can You Hear Me?
This time-lapse documentary follows the last years of former President Václav Havel's life, creating...
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Life Is Bearable at Times...
Documentary about Polish poet and Nobel Prize winner Wisława Szymborska....
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The Presence of Arnošt Lustig
"A man is immortal as long as he lives in the memory of others,” said well-known Czech writer Arnošt...
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Curious: The Velvet Underground in Europe
Spotlights the Velvet Underground's 1993 reunion tour of Europe, interspersing footage of the band's...
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A znovu Žebrácká opera
Two different productions of Václav Havel's Beggar's Opera reveal the political dynamics of Czechosl...
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Every Young Man
Jurácek's feature debut is shot in two parts. In the first, a corporal accompanies a new recruit wit...
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Eye Over Prague
A personal and political biography of the Octopus, or the Prague National Library project, but also ...
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Hammer & Tickle
Hammer & Tickle: The Communist Joke Book is a 2006 propaganda documentary film about "jokes" und...
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Stone Bridge
A bitter comedic-drama centering around Tomas, a former promising young director who must cope with ...
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Věra 68
Vera Cáslavská, the most successful Czechoslovak sportswoman and the fourth most successful Olympic ...
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An Occasion to Speak
Documentary about the film academy in Prague and the Czech Film in 1965....
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Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words
Utilizing potent TV interviews and many forgotten performances from his 30-year career, we are immer...
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The Power of Good: Nicholas Winton
A gripping documentary about the courage and determination of a young English stockbroker who saved ...
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Bohemia Docta or the Labyrinth of the World and the Lust-House of the Heart (A Divine Comedy)
A labyrinthine portrait of Czech culture on the brink of a new millennium. Egon Bondy prophesies a c...
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Citizen Vaclav Havel Goes on Vacation
This quirky documentary follows Vaclav Havel on an eye-opening journey across his native Czechoslova...
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Olga
Olga Havlová was the closest and most trustworthy companion of Václav Havel. A friend who was always...
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Mlha
The work of actors on a stage makes a dreamlike parallelism between artistic immagination and the co...
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Late Night Talks with Mother
Taking a cue from Franz Kafka's "Letter to My Father," this highly personal film follows Czech direc...
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Václav Havel - Living in Freedom
Bohemian, playwright, and suddenly president at the end of 1989: Czech European Václav Havel played ...
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The Plastic People of the Universe
Meet The Plastic People of the Universe, the avant-garde, jazz-rock, Sun Ra meets Velvet Underground...
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Forman vs. Forman
A moving account, in his own words, of the personal life and work of the brilliant Czech filmmaker M...
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What Is to Be Done? A Journey from Prague to Ceský Krumlov, or How I Formed a New Government
Quite a few years have passed since November 1989. Czechoslovakia has been divided up and, in the Cz...
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November's Children: Revolution in Prague
A first-hand account of the tumultuous events of 1989 when a student-led revolution succeeded in ove...
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Drawn from Memory
Fierlinger concentrates his considerable talents as an animator to recount through fragmented memori...
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Wisdom
Inspired by the idea that the greatest gift one generation can give to another is the wisdom it has ...
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Mečiar: The Lust For Power
The film Mečiar is the confession of the young director Tereza Nvotová about Vladimír Mečiar and the...
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New Hyperion or Liberty, Equality, Brotherhood
From the behavior, discourse, and appearance of individual actors, Vachek composes, in the form of a...
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TGM the Liberator
The life of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, the first elected President of Czechoslovakia following the fall...
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Bill Moyers: Beyond Hate
Hate has many faces: racism, anti-Semitism, homophobia, sectarianism, domestic violence. But do we r...
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