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"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.
Czech Republic, United States of AmericaEnglish
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Timothy Garton Ash
as Self - Interviewee
Joan Bakewell
as BBC Interviewer - BBC Archival Film
Shirley Bassey
as Self - Subject (archive footage)
K.B
Kamila Bendova
as Self - Interviewee
Mikhail Gorbachev
as Self - Subject (archive footage)
Tenzin Gyatso
as Self - Subject (archive footage)
Robert F. Kennedy
as Self - Subject (archive footage)
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1h 45m
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Czech Republic, United States of America
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The Art of Dissent(2021)
October 5, 2021 · 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 and Crew
MORE CAST & CREWTimothy Garton Ash
as Self - Interviewee
Joan Bakewell
as BBC Interviewer - BBC Archival Film
Shirley Bassey
as Self - Subject (archive footage)
K.B
Kamila Bendova
as Self - Interviewee
Mikhail Gorbachev
as Self - Subject (archive footage)
Tenzin Gyatso
as Self - Subject (archive footage)
Robert F. Kennedy
as Self - Subject (archive footage)
