The Art of Dissent

"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.

Documentary

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))