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The Art of Dissent (2021)
Directed by James Le Sueur
Overview
“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.
Length 105 minutes
Actors
Timothy Garton Ash | Joan Bakewell | Shirley Bassey | Kamila Bendova | Mikhail Gorbachev | Tenzin Gyatso | Robert F. Kennedy | Martin Luther King | Frank Zappa