Documentary · Czech Republic · 2021 · 1h 45m

The Art of Dissent

Director

Cast

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)

Crew

James Le Sueur — Writer

Synopsis

"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.

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