The Art of Dissent

(2021)

★ 6.8 IMDb · 13 votes

Genres: Documentary

Year: 2021

Runtime: 105 мин

Country: Czech Republic, United States of America

Director: James Le Sueur

Cast: Timothy Garton Ash, Joan Bakewell, Shirley Bassey, Kamila Bendova, Михаил Горбачёв, Tenzin Gyatso, Robert F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Frank Zappa

Plot

"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.