The Art of Dissent

James Le Sueur
2021-10-05


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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.

Cast

Name Character Team
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