Released:
2021-10-05

Overview:
"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.

Director:
James Le Sueur

Runtime:
1h 45min

Genre:
Documentary

• Cast:
• 
  Timothy Garton Ash
  as
  Self - Interviewee
• 
  Joan Bakewell
  as
  BBC Interviewer - BBC Archival Film
• 
  Shirley Bassey
  as
  Self - Subject (archive footage)
• 
  Kamila Bendova
  as
  Self - Interviewee
• 
  Mikhail Gorbachev
  as
  Self - Subject (archive footage)