The Art of Dissent
"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.
Directed by James Le Sueur · Written by James Le Sueur
Your Rating
Where to Watch
Streaming
Rent or Buy
Cast
-
Timothy Garton Ash Self - Interviewee -
Joan Bakewell BBC Interviewer - BBC Archival Film -
Shirley Bassey Self - Subject (archive footage) - Kamila Bendova Self - Interviewee
-
Mikhail Gorbachev Self - Subject (archive footage) -
Tenzin Gyatso Self - Subject (archive footage) -
Robert F. Kennedy Self - Subject (archive footage) -
Martin Luther King Jr. Self - Subject (archive footage) -
Frank Zappa Self - Subject (archive footage)
More Like This
Couldn't load this row right now.
