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The Art of Dissent

0.0 105 mins Documentary   2021
FRMOL production   Česká televize  
Director(s): James Le Sueur

"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.

Casts of The Art of Dissent

Timothy Garton Ash

as Self - Interviewee

Joan Bakewell

as BBC Interviewer - BBC Archival Film

Shirley Bassey

as Self - Subject (archive footage)

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)

Martin Luther King Jr.

as Self - Subject (archive footage)

Frank Zappa

as Self - Subject (archive footage)

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