The Art of Dissent
October 5, 2021
1h 45m
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.
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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
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