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Mečiar: The Lust For Power (2017)
Directed by Tereza Nvotová
Overview
The film Mečiar is the confession of the young director Tereza Nvotová about Vladimír Mečiar and the influence that this politician had on Slovak society, but also on the life of Tereza herself. When the totalitarian communist regime fell in Czechoslovakia in 1989, Tereza was one year old. The leaders of the Gentle Revolution then decided to hold an audition for the Minister of the Interior, to which Vladimír Mečiar, an unknown business lawyer from the Slovak countryside at the time, applied. After success in bankruptcy, Vladimír Mečiar reaches the political top, from where he rules the country with a series of questionable practices. Against the background of events such as the division of Czechoslovakia or the kidnapping of the son of the president of the Slovak Republic, Tereza and her peers relive their childhood.
Length 89 minutes
Actors
Vladimír Mečiar | Tereza Nvotová | Milan Žitný | Fedor Flašík | Fedor Gál | Ladislav Snopko | Petr Pithart | Tom E. Nicholson | Martin M. Šimečka | Eugen Korda | Anna Šišková | Juraj Nvota | Dorota Nvotová | Gérard Depardieu | Claudia Schiffer | Milan Kňažko | Václav Havel | Václav Klaus | Pavel Dumbrovský | Daniel Krauser | Robert Fico