Václav Havel
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Known For:Acting
Birthday:1936-10-05
Place of Birth:Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
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Zappa (2020)
With the help of more than 10,000 dedicated Zappa fans, this is the long-awaited definitive documentary project of Alex Winter documenting the life...

I am Fishead (2011)
A provocative snapshot of the world we live in. It is a well-known fact that our society is structured like a pyramid. The very few people at the...

Lou Reed: Rock and Roll Heart (1998)
An incredible retracing of the evolution of Reed's remarkable career over three decades. Filled with interviews with Reed, his friends and some of...

Why Havel? (1991)
The first part of the block will be dedicated to the monograph Vojtěch Jasný: The Film Poet in Exile (2020) authored by the film historian...

Czech Made Man (2011)
The movie is based on the narrative of a Czech multimillionaire who achieved success not by stripping companies, making crooked deals and crony-ism,...

Havel Speaking, Can You Hear Me? (2024)
This time-lapse documentary follows the last years of former President Václav Havel's life, creating a multi-layered portrait of a...

Life Is Bearable at Times... (2010)
Documentary about Polish poet and Nobel Prize winner Wisława Szymborska.

The Presence of Arnošt Lustig (1970)
"A man is immortal as long as he lives in the memory of others,” said well-known Czech writer Arnošt Lustig with a wry smile. In...

Curious: The Velvet Underground in Europe (1993)
Spotlights the Velvet Underground's 1993 reunion tour of Europe, interspersing footage of the band's Paris concert and interviews with the members of...

A znovu Žebrácká opera (1996)
Two different productions of Václav Havel's Beggar's Opera reveal the political dynamics of Czechoslovakia before and after the velvet...

The Stock-Check (1981)
Czech semi-documentary.

Every Young Man (1966)
Jurácek's feature debut is shot in two parts. In the first, a corporal accompanies a new recruit with a sore Achilles tendon for his physical,...

Hammer & Tickle (2007)
Hammer & Tickle: The Communist Joke Book is a 2006 propaganda documentary film about "jokes" under the Soviet Union.

Stone Bridge (1996)
A bitter comedic-drama centering around Tomas, a former promising young director who must cope with a commerce driven world he no longer wants to...

An Occasion to Speak (1966)
Documentary about the film academy in Prague and the Czech Film in 1965.

Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words (2016)
Utilizing potent TV interviews and many forgotten performances from his 30-year career, we are immersed into Frank Zappa’s world while...

Síla lidskosti - Nicholas Winton (2003)
A gripping documentary about the courage and determination of a young English stockbroker who saved the lives of 669 children. Between March 13 and...

Bohemia Docta or the Labyrinth of the World and the Lust-House of the Heart (A Divine Comedy) (2000)
A labyrinthine portrait of Czech culture on the brink of a new millennium. Egon Bondy prophesies a capitalist inferno, Jim Čert admits to...

Citizen Vaclav Havel Goes on Vacation (2006)
This quirky documentary follows Vaclav Havel on an eye-opening journey across his native Czechoslovakia in the days before he became president of the...

Mlha (1966)
The work of actors on a stage makes a dreamlike parallelism between artistic immagination and the concreteness of everyday life. Tribute to Prague's...

Late Night Talks with Mother (2003)
Taking a cue from Franz Kafka's "Letter to My Father," this highly personal film follows Czech director Jan Nemec as he attempts to engage in a...

The Plastic People of the Universe (2001)
Meet The Plastic People of the Universe, the avant-garde, jazz-rock, Sun Ra meets Velvet Underground, Czech revolutionaries. A tribute to the band...

Forman vs. Forman (2019)
A moving account, in his own words, of the personal life and work of the brilliant Czech filmmaker Miloš Forman (1932-2018): his tragic...

What Is to Be Done? A Journey from Prague to Ceský Krumlov, or How I Formed a New Government (1996)
Quite a few years have passed since November 1989. Czechoslovakia has been divided up and, in the Czech Republic, Václav Klaus’s...

November's Children: Revolution in Prague (1991)
A first-hand account of the tumultuous events of 1989 when a student-led revolution succeeded in overthrowing Czechoslovakia's repressive Communist...

Drawn from Memory (1995)
Fierlinger concentrates his considerable talents as an animator to recount through fragmented memories, vivid recollections, and the occasional...

Wisdom (2008)
Inspired by the idea that the greatest gift one generation can give to another is the wisdom it has gained from experience, 'Wisdom' seeks to create...

Mečiar: The Lust For Power (2017)
The film Mečiar is the confession of the young director Tereza Nvotová about Vladimír Mečiar and the influence that this politician...

The Lost World of Communism (2009)
The Lost World of Communism is a three-part British documentary series which examines the legacy of Communism twenty years on from the fall of the...