The Art of Dissent
The Art of Dissent
Release: 2021-10-05
·Runtime: 105m
Documentary
"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.
Production Countries
Czech Republic
United States of America
Production Companies
FRMOL production
Česká televize
Cast
Martin Luther King Jr.
as Self - Subject (archive footage)
Frank Zappa
as Self - Subject (archive footage)
Timothy Garton Ash
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)
Joan Bakewell
as BBC Interviewer - BBC Archival Film
Shirley Bassey
as Self - Subject (archive footage)