The Art of Dissent (2021)
"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.
- Released
- 2021-10-05
- Genres
- Documentary
- Runtime
- 105 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- James Le Sueur
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)
- Tenzin Gyatso as Self - Subject (archive footage)
- Robert F. Kennedy as Self - Subject (archive footage)
- Martin Luther King Jr. as Self - Subject (archive footage)
- Frank Zappa as Self - Subject (archive footage)