Václav Havel

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1936-10-05

Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]

Biography

Václav Havel (5 October 1936 – 18 December 2011) was a Czech statesman, author, poet, playwright, and former dissident. Havel served as the last president of Czechoslovakia from 1989 until the dissolution of Czechoslovakia on 31 December 1992 and then as the first president of the Czech Republic from 1993 to 2003. He was the first democratically elected president of either country after the fall of communism. As a writer of Czech literature, he is known for his plays, essays, and memoirs.

Crew Roles

Mlýny
Writer
Odcházení
Director
Largo Desolato
Theatre Play
Blue Moon Once
Writer
Redevelopment
Writer
Pétition
Writer
Sorry...
Writer
Audiens
Theatre Play
Heart Beat 3D
Writer
Audience
Theatre Play
Mlha
Dramaturgy
Protest
Writer
Why Are You So Sad?
Writer
The Beggar's Opera
Screenplay
The Beggar's Opera
Theatre Play
Motýl na anténě
Theatre Play
Vernisáž
Theatre Play
Zítra to spustíme
Theatre Play
Theatre Play
Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {47}

Self - President of Czechoslovakia (archive footage)

2020-11-27 7.3

Zappa

With the help of more than 10,000 dedicated Zappa fans, this is the long-awaited definitive documentary project of Alex Winter documenting the life and career of enigmatic groundbreaking rock star Fra ...
Genre :Music, Documentary

Self

2008-01-31 7.8

Citizen Havel

The documentary explores the presidency of Václav Havel, a poet who unexpectedly became president. The film, starting in 1992, captures Havel’s experiences after the breakup of Czechoslovakia, a signi ...
Genre :Documentary

himself

2011-09-11 6.5

I am Fishead

A provocative snapshot of the world we live in. It is a well-known fact that our society is structured like a pyramid. The very few people at the top create conditions for the majority below. Who are ...
Genre :Documentary

Self

2018-06-30 0

Rolling Stones – Hearts for Prague

Genre :Documentary

Self

1998-04-29 7

Lou Reed: Rock and Roll Heart

An incredible retracing of the evolution of Reed's remarkable career over three decades. Filled with interviews with Reed, his friends and some of the major artists influenced by Reed including David ...
Genre :Music, Documentary

Václav Havel

1991-10-01 0

Why Havel?

The first part of the block will be dedicated to the monograph Vojtěch Jasný: The Film Poet in Exile (2020) authored by the film historian Jiří Voráč. The monograph is centered on the legendary direct ...
Genre :Documentary

jako host

2011-04-27 6.9

Czech Made Man

The movie is based on the narrative of a Czech multimillionaire who achieved success not by stripping companies, making crooked deals and crony-ism, but by blazing his own trail like Schweikesque self ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

lui-même

2009-01-01 0

Václav Havel : L'éternel insurgé

Five years after stepping down as President of the Republic, Vaclav Havel returns to the theater with a play that raises questions. A play that examines the ills of our society, and humorously depicts ...
Genre :Documentary

Self (archive footage)

2024-04-11 5

Havel Speaking, Can You Hear Me?

This time-lapse documentary follows the last years of former President Václav Havel's life, creating a multi-layered portrait of a world-famous political icon and important playwright, but also an ord ...
Genre :Documentary

2010-02-28 0

Life Is Bearable at Times...

Documentary about Polish poet and Nobel Prize winner Wisława Szymborska. ...
Genre :Documentary

Self

2012-01-01 0

The Presence of Arnošt Lustig

"A man is immortal as long as he lives in the memory of others,” said well-known Czech writer Arnošt Lustig with a wry smile. In December 2006 when her father turned 80, filmmaker Eva Lustigová began ...
Genre :Documentary

Self

1993-12-01 0

Curious: The Velvet Underground in Europe

Spotlights the Velvet Underground's 1993 reunion tour of Europe, interspersing footage of the band's Paris concert and interviews with the members of the group. Concerts in Prague and Berlin included. ...
Genre :Documentary

Self (archive footage)

2023-11-17 0

Ján Langoš – strážca pamäti

Genre :Documentary

Self (archive footage)

2022-09-09 0

Elizabeth II: Three days in the Czech Republic

Genre :Documentary

Self

1996-01-01 0

A znovu Žebrácká opera

Two different productions of Václav Havel's Beggar's Opera reveal the political dynamics of Czechoslovakia before and after the velvet revolution. ...
Genre :Documentary

1981-01-01 0

The Stock-Check

Czech semi-documentary. ...
Genre :Documentary

trpěliví

1966-05-13 6.5

Every Young Man

Jurácek's feature debut is shot in two parts. In the first, a corporal accompanies a new recruit with a sore Achilles tendon for his physical, and all the girls or young women they see are played by t ...
Genre :Drama

2010-04-15 0

Eye Over Prague

A personal and political biography of the Octopus, or the Prague National Library project, but also a biography of the last years of the life of the author of this design, Jan Kaplický, who wrote in h ...
Genre :Documentary

Self

1993-11-13 0

Vaclav Havel, ein böhmisches Märchen

Genre :Documentary

Self (archive footage)

2007-01-08 7.4

Hammer & Tickle

Hammer & Tickle: The Communist Joke Book is a 2006 propaganda documentary film about "jokes" under the Soviet Union. ...
Genre :

President

1996-10-24 3.333

Stone Bridge

A bitter comedic-drama centering around Tomas, a former promising young director who must cope with a commerce driven world he no longer wants to participate in. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Himself

2012-05-03 0

Věra 68

Vera Cáslavská, the most successful Czechoslovak sportswoman and the fourth most successful Olympic sportswoman globally, won seven gold and four silver medals. After her 1968 Mexico City Olympics vic ...
Genre :Documentary

Self

1966-09-28 0

An Occasion to Speak

Documentary about the film academy in Prague and the Czech Film in 1965. ...
Genre :Documentary

2008-10-27 0

Anatomie gagu

Genre :Comedy, Documentary

Self (archive footage)

2016-05-03 7.3

Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

Utilizing potent TV interviews and many forgotten performances from his 30-year career, we are immersed into Frank Zappa’s world while experiencing two distinct facets of his complex character. At onc ...
Genre :Music, Documentary

Self

2003-03-27 9

The Power of Good: Nicholas Winton

A gripping documentary about the courage and determination of a young English stockbroker who saved the lives of 669 children. Between March 13 and August 2, 1939, Nicholas Winton organized 8 transpor ...
Genre :Documentary, History

2000-12-16 0

Bohemia Docta or the Labyrinth of the World and the Lust-House of the Heart (A Divine Comedy)

A labyrinthine portrait of Czech culture on the brink of a new millennium. Egon Bondy prophesies a capitalist inferno, Jim Čert admits to collaborating with the secret police, Jaroslav Foglar can’t fi ...
Genre :Documentary

2006-10-04 7

Citizen Vaclav Havel Goes on Vacation

This quirky documentary follows Vaclav Havel on an eye-opening journey across his native Czechoslovakia in the days before he became president of the Czech Republic. A leading playwright, essayist, in ...
Genre :Documentary

Self

2014-05-15 5

Olga

Olga Havlová was the closest and most trustworthy companion of Václav Havel. A friend who was always generous with her time. She was an entertaining host, passionate games-player, mushroom-gatherer, n ...
Genre :Documentary

1966-01-01 7

Mlha

The work of actors on a stage makes a dreamlike parallelism between artistic immagination and the concreteness of everyday life. Tribute to Prague's Divadlo na zàbradlì, theater that has been a point ...
Genre :Documentary

Václav Havel

2003-01-15 0

Late Night Talks with Mother

Taking a cue from Franz Kafka's "Letter to My Father," this highly personal film follows Czech director Jan Nemec as he attempts to engage in a dialogue with his deceased mother. While alive, Nemec's ...
Genre :Documentary

Himself (archive footage)

2014-12-01 0

Václav Havel - Living in Freedom

Bohemian, playwright, and suddenly president at the end of 1989: Czech European Václav Havel played a decisive role in shaping the history of the continent in the second half of the 20th century. Andr ...
Genre :History, Documentary

Self (archive footage)

2016-12-18 0

Jak odchází prezident...

Genre :Documentary

Self

2001-03-01 0

The Plastic People of the Universe

Meet The Plastic People of the Universe, the avant-garde, jazz-rock, Sun Ra meets Velvet Underground, Czech revolutionaries. A tribute to the band that against all odds used the power of their music t ...
Genre :Documentary

Self - Friend (archive footage)

2019-07-16 7.692

Forman vs. Forman

A moving account, in his own words, of the personal life and work of the brilliant Czech filmmaker Miloš Forman (1932-2018): his tragic childhood, his major contribution to the cultural movement known ...
Genre :Documentary

Self

1968-01-01 0

Czechoslovakia: Portrait of a Tragedy

Genre :Documentary

Self

1996-08-29 0

What Is to Be Done? A Journey from Prague to Ceský Krumlov, or How I Formed a New Government

Quite a few years have passed since November 1989. Czechoslovakia has been divided up and, in the Czech Republic, Václav Klaus’s right-wing government is in power. Karel Vachek follows on from his fil ...
Genre :Documentary

1991-10-01 3

November's Children: Revolution in Prague

A first-hand account of the tumultuous events of 1989 when a student-led revolution succeeded in overthrowing Czechoslovakia's repressive Communist regime. The film, which includes rare government and ...
Genre :Documentary

Self (voice)

1995-04-25 0

Drawn from Memory

Fierlinger concentrates his considerable talents as an animator to recount through fragmented memories, vivid recollections, and the occasional evocative photograph his life as the rebellious son of J ...
Genre :Documentary, Animation

2008-10-07 6

Wisdom

Inspired by the idea that the greatest gift one generation can give to another is the wisdom it has gained from experience, 'Wisdom' seeks to create a record of a group of people over the age of 65 wh ...
Genre :Documentary

2017-10-12 5.333

Mečiar: The Lust For Power

The film Mečiar is the confession of the young director Tereza Nvotová about Vladimír Mečiar and the influence that this politician had on Slovak society, but also on the life of Tereza herself. When ...
Genre :Documentary

Self

1992-04-06 0

New Hyperion or Liberty, Equality, Brotherhood

From the behavior, discourse, and appearance of individual actors, Vachek composes, in the form of a mosaic, a broad and many-layered film-argument about Czechoslovak democracy in the period of its re ...
Genre :Documentary

Self

1990-03-08 10

TGM the Liberator

The life of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, the first elected President of Czechoslovakia following the fall of the Austro-Hungarian empire in 1918. ...
Genre :Documentary

Self

2024-05-09 0

Zánik Československa v parlamentu

Genre :Documentary

1991-05-12 0

Bill Moyers: Beyond Hate

Hate has many faces: racism, anti-Semitism, homophobia, sectarianism, domestic violence. But do we really understand its roots, and are there practical ways to cope with it? What is hate doing to us? ...
Genre :Documentary

2009-03-14 6

The Lost World of Communism

The Lost World of Communism is a three-part British documentary series which examines the legacy of Communism twenty years on from the fall of the Berlin Wall. Produced by Peter Molloy and Lucy Hether ...
Genre :Documentary

Self

1995-01-01 0

Goldene Henne

Genre :Reality