The Art of Dissent
October 05, 2021 | 105 min
"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.
Genres
Documentary
Cast
Timothy Garton Ash
Joan Bakewell
Shirley Bassey
Kamila Bendova
Михаил Горбачёв
Tenzin Gyatso