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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.
Name | Character | Team | |
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Timothy Garton Ash | Self - Interviewee | Unowned | |
Joan Bakewell | BBC Interviewer - BBC Archival Film | Unowned | |
Shirley Bassey | Self - Subject (archive footage) | Unowned | |
Kamila Bendova | Self - Interviewee | Unowned | |
Mikhail Gorbachev | Self - Subject (archive footage) | Unowned | |
Tenzin Gyatso | Self - Subject (archive footage) | Unowned | |
Robert F. Kennedy | Self - Subject (archive footage) | Unowned | |
Martin Luther King Jr. | Self - Subject (archive footage) | Unowned | |
Frank Zappa | Self - Subject (archive footage) | Unowned |