The Art of Dissent
2021, English. Directed by James Le Sueur.
"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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- 1h 45m
- Post-credits
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- Language
- English
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The Art of Dissent is streaming on DocAlliance Films in India.
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Cast & crew
- James Le SueurDirector
- Timothy Garton AshSelf - Interviewee
- Joan BakewellBBC Interviewer - BBC Archival Film
- Shirley BasseySelf - Subject (archive footage)
- Kamila BendovaSelf - Interviewee
- Mikhail GorbachevSelf - Subject (archive footage)
- Tenzin GyatsoSelf - Subject (archive footage)
- Robert F. KennedySelf - Subject (archive footage)
- Martin Luther King Jr.Self - Subject (archive footage)
- Frank ZappaSelf - Subject (archive footage)
Details
- Released
- 5 October 2021
- Country
- Czech Republic, United States of America
- Written by
- James Le Sueur
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The Art of Dissent (2021) was directed by James Le Sueur and stars Timothy Garton Ash, Joan Bakewell, Shirley Bassey.