Václav Havel
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Biography: Václav Havel (5 October 1936 – 18 December 2011) was a Czech statesman, author, poet, playwright, and former dissident. Havel served as the last president of Czechoslovakia from 1989 until the dissolution of Czechoslovakia on 31 December 1992 and then as the first president of the Czech Republic from 1993 to 2003. He was the first democratically elected president of either country after the fall of communism. As a writer of Czech literature, he is known for his plays, essays, and memoirs.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
Birthday: October 05, 1936
Deathday: December 18, 2011
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Gender: Male
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Zappa
Overview: With the help of more than 10,000 dedicated Zappa fans, this is the long-awaited definitive documentary project of Alex Winter documenting the life and career of enigmatic groundbreaking rock star Frank Zappa. Alex also utilizes in this picture thousands of hours of painstakingly digitized videos, photos, audio, writing, and everything in between from Zappa's private archives. These chronicles have never been brought to a public audience before, until now.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-11-27
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Občan Havel
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2008-01-31
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I am Fishead
Overview: A provocative snapshot of the world we live in. It is a well-known fact that our society is structured like a pyramid. The very few people at the top create conditions for the majority below. Who are these people? Can we blame them for the problems our society faces today? Guided by the saying “A fish rots from the head” we set out to follow that fishy odor. What we found out is that people at the top are more likely to be psychopaths than the rest of us.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-09-11
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Rolling Stones – Hearts for Prague
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2018-06-30
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Lou Reed: Rock and Roll Heart
Overview: An incredible retracing of the evolution of Reed's remarkable career over three decades. Filled with interviews with Reed, his friends and some of the major artists influenced by Reed including David Bowie, David Byrne, Patti Smith, Suzanne Vega, Dave Stewart, Philip Glass and more. Production Notes, Biographies, Discography, Scene Access, Screen Test, Rare Velvet Footage
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-04-29
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Why Havel?
Overview: The first part of the block will be dedicated to the monograph Vojtěch Jasný: The Film Poet in Exile (2020) authored by the film historian Jiří Voráč. The monograph is centered on the legendary director’s life and career after his emigration to Western Europe and to the US after 1968, which have so far received little attention. In exile, Jasný established himself as a film director (he authored over thirty cinema and TV films and documentaries), stage director, photographer, and film studies lecturer. The first part will be followed by the screening of Jasný’s documentary Why Havel? co-produced by himself and Miloš Forman in Canada and Czechoslovakia in 1991. As remarkable as this reflection of the paradoxical transformation of a dissident into a president in the carnival-like atmosphere of the euphoric post-revolution period with the first question marks already appearing may be, it did not meet the expectations of the head of state.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1991-10-01
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Czech Made Man
Overview: The movie is based on the narrative of a Czech multimillionaire who achieved success not by stripping companies, making crooked deals and crony-ism, but by blazing his own trail like Schweikesque self-made man. He realizes early on that he has nobody but himself to rely on. During the totalitarian regime of the 80s, he ambles along his oddball path and then experiences the Velvet Revolution atypically, too - in an asylum amidst nut-cases. After the Revolution, he really gets rolling. To Germany and back. To prison and back. To China and back. The intriguing and endless opportunities afforded by the Internet eventually blossom into virtual prosperity. The hero has everything and is even planning a highly unorthodox family. A happy ending is nigh, until everything goes up in smoke, of course...
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2011-04-27
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Václav Havel : L'éternel insurgé
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
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Havel Speaking, Can You Hear Me?
Overview: This time-lapse documentary follows the last years of former President Václav Havel's life, creating a multi-layered portrait of a world-famous political icon and important playwright, but also an ordinary man plagued by health problems. Havel allows the filmmakers a glimpse behind the scenes of his life, revealing purely personal moments that present him in previously unrecognised contours. With a sense of humour, he reflects on his political legacy and universal human issues. The central motif is formed by the parallels between Havel's life and the successful play Leaving, which Havel always wanted to direct as a film adaptation.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2024-04-11
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Life Is Bearable at Times...
Overview: Documentary about Polish poet and Nobel Prize winner Wisława Szymborska.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2010-02-28
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The Presence of Arnošt Lustig
Overview: "A man is immortal as long as he lives in the memory of others,” said well-known Czech writer Arnošt Lustig with a wry smile. In December 2006 when her father turned 80, filmmaker Eva Lustigová began to see just how closely his words applied to himself personally. Her method involved recording their meetings and personal interviews together, until Lustig’s death in February 2011. Employing his notorious sense of humor, the film presents the world-renowned author as he recalls a carefree childhood cut short by the Nazi occupation, the horror of life in a concentration camp, the beginnings of his writing career, living in Israel and the USA, and his lifelong friendship with Ota Pavel. Geneva-based Eva Lustigová’s documentary is not a traditional portrait compilation of a famous writer that chronologically investigates his life, but rather a loosely assembled, lively movie about a person with an eternal love for life as it is.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: cs
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Curious: The Velvet Underground in Europe
Overview: Spotlights the Velvet Underground's 1993 reunion tour of Europe, interspersing footage of the band's Paris concert and interviews with the members of the group. Concerts in Prague and Berlin included.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-12-01
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Ján Langoš – strážca pamäti
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sk
Release Date: 2023-11-17
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Alžběta II.: Tři dny v Česku
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2022-09-09
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A znovu Žebrácká opera
Overview: Two different productions of Václav Havel's Beggar's Opera reveal the political dynamics of Czechoslovakia before and after the velvet revolution.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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The Stock-Check
Overview: Czech semi-documentary.
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Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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Every Young Man
Overview: Jurácek's feature debut is shot in two parts. In the first, a corporal accompanies a new recruit with a sore Achilles tendon for his physical, and all the girls or young women they see are played by the same actress (Ruzickova). In the longer second segment, shot with the help of the Czechoslovakia army, the soldiers pass the time during basic training and maneuvers by talking about girls.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1966-05-13
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Eye Over Prague
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2010-04-15
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Vaclav Havel, ein böhmisches Märchen
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1993-11-13
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Hammer & Tickle
Overview: Hammer & Tickle: The Communist Joke Book is a 2006 propaganda documentary film about "jokes" under the Soviet Union.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-01-08
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Stone Bridge
Overview: A bitter comedic-drama centering around Tomas, a former promising young director who must cope with a commerce driven world he no longer wants to participate in.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1996-10-24
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Věra 68
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2012-05-03
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An Occasion to Speak
Overview: Documentary about the film academy in Prague and the Czech Film in 1965.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1966-09-28
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Anatomie gagu
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Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2008-10-27
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Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words
Overview: Utilizing potent TV interviews and many forgotten performances from his 30-year career, we are immersed into Frank Zappa’s world while experiencing two distinct facets of his complex character. At once Zappa was both a charismatic composer who reveled in the joy of performing and, in the next moment, a fiercely intelligent and brutally honest interviewee whose convictions only got stronger as his career ascended.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-05-03
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Síla lidskosti - Nicholas Winton
Overview: A gripping documentary about the courage and determination of a young English stockbroker who saved the lives of 669 children. Between March 13 and August 2, 1939, Nicholas Winton organized 8 transports to take children from Prague to new homes in Great Britain, and kept quiet about it until his wife discovered a scrapbook documenting his unique mission in 1988. Winton was a successful 29-year-old stockbroker in London who "had an intuition" about the fate of the Jews when he visited Prague in 1939. He quietly but decisively got down to the business of saving lives. We learn how only two countries, Sweden and Britain, answered his call to harbor the young refugees; how documents had to be forged and how once foster parents signed for the children on delivery, that was the last he saw of them.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2003-03-27
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Bohemia Docta or the Labyrinth of the World and the Lust-House of the Heart (A Divine Comedy)
Overview: A labyrinthine portrait of Czech culture on the brink of a new millennium. Egon Bondy prophesies a capitalist inferno, Jim Čert admits to collaborating with the secret police, Jaroslav Foglar can’t find a bottle-opener, and Ivan Diviš makes observations about his own funeral. This is the Czech Republic in the late 90s, as detailed in Karel Vachek’s documentary.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2000-12-16
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Citizen Vaclav Havel Goes on Vacation
Overview: This quirky documentary follows Vaclav Havel on an eye-opening journey across his native Czechoslovakia in the days before he became president of the Czech Republic. A leading playwright, essayist, intellectual and political dissident in 1985, Havel decides to explore the limits of the secret police by traveling and visiting a variety of friends. Along the way, he's thrown in jail twice and followed by hundreds of undercover cops.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2006-10-04
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Olga
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2014-05-15
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Mlha
Overview: The work of actors on a stage makes a dreamlike parallelism between artistic immagination and the concreteness of everyday life. Tribute to Prague's Divadlo na zàbradlì, theater that has been a point of reference for Theater of the Absurd in Czechoslovakia in Sixties
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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Late Night Talks with Mother
Overview: Taking a cue from Franz Kafka's "Letter to My Father," this highly personal film follows Czech director Jan Nemec as he attempts to engage in a dialogue with his deceased mother. While alive, Nemec's mother had a troubled relationship with her son; this rumination seems to be Nemec's public platform for coming to terms with unresolved familial issues. The director embellishes his film by linking personal events with 20th century history.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2003-01-15
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Život podle Václava Havla
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Genres: History Documentary
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2014-12-01
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Jak odchází prezident...
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2016-12-18
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The Plastic People of the Universe
Overview: Meet The Plastic People of the Universe, the avant-garde, jazz-rock, Sun Ra meets Velvet Underground, Czech revolutionaries. A tribute to the band that against all odds used the power of their music to help topple their oppressive government.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2001-03-01
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Forman vs. Forman
Overview: A moving account, in his own words, of the personal life and work of the brilliant Czech filmmaker Miloš Forman (1932-2018): his tragic childhood, his major contribution to the cultural movement known as the Czech New Wave, his exile in Paris, his troubled days in New York, his rise to stardom in Hollywood; a complete existence in the service of cinema.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2019-07-16
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Czechoslovakia: Portrait of a Tragedy
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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What Is to Be Done? A Journey from Prague to Ceský Krumlov, or How I Formed a New Government
Overview: Quite a few years have passed since November 1989. Czechoslovakia has been divided up and, in the Czech Republic, Václav Klaus’s right-wing government is in power. Karel Vachek follows on from his film New Hyperion, thus continuing his series of comprehensive film documentaries in which he maps out Czech society and its real and imagined elites in his own unique way.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1996-08-29
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November's Children: Revolution in Prague
Overview: A first-hand account of the tumultuous events of 1989 when a student-led revolution succeeded in overthrowing Czechoslovakia's repressive Communist regime. The film, which includes rare government and underground footage, follows the lives of three Czechoslovak students whose leadership helped ignite the 'Velvet Revoution' and eventually establish a democratic government. Directed by Oscar-winner Allan Miller, it features interviews with students, activists and the country's new president, Vaclav Havel.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-10-01
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Drawn from Memory
Overview: Fierlinger concentrates his considerable talents as an animator to recount through fragmented memories, vivid recollections, and the occasional evocative photograph his life as the rebellious son of Jan Fierlinger, Czechoslovakian career politician.
Genres: Documentary Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-04-25
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Wisdom
Overview: Inspired by the idea that the greatest gift one generation can give to another is the wisdom it has gained from experience, 'Wisdom' seeks to create a record of a group of people over the age of 65 who have all made their mark on the world.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-10-07
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Mečiar: The Lust For Power
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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sk
Release Date: 2017-10-12
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