The Art of Dissent (2021)
"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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Cast
- Timothy Garton Ash — Self - Interviewee
- Joan Bakewell — BBC Interviewer - BBC Archival Film
- Shirley Bassey — Self - Subject (archive footage)
- Kamila Bendova — Self - Interviewee
- Mikhail Gorbachev — Self - Subject (archive footage)
- Tenzin Gyatso — Self - Subject (archive footage)
- Robert F. Kennedy — Self - Subject (archive footage)
- Martin Luther King Jr. — Self - Subject (archive footage)
- Frank Zappa — Self - Subject (archive footage)
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