The Art of Dissent

The Art of Dissent (2021)

Documentary

"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.

  • Release Date: 2021-10-05
  • Runtime: 1h 45min
  • Director: James Le Sueur

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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)