The Art of Dissent

Name: The Art of Dissent
Director: James Le Sueur
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2021-10-05
Duration: 105 min
Cast: Timothy Garton Ash, Joan Bakewell, Shirley Bassey, Kamila Bendova, Mikhail Gorbachev

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2021 · 105 min · Documentary

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.

Directed by James Le Sueur

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)