The Art of Dissent

Directed by James Le Sueur
2021    1h 45mDocumentary
6.8
"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 of The Art of Dissent
  • 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)
 
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