Citizen Havel

Probably no politician in the world has ever let a filmmakers get as close to his body as Václav Havel.

Občan Havel

Czechia 2007

Czech

Czech

119 min.

Accessible

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2 min

Citizen Havel (trailer)

Citizen Havel

About

Would you like to watch Václav Havel practising his acceptance speech as president, judge how well he recites Šrámek’s The Silver Wind or see how Václav Klaus manages to talk his way into a jazz club to hear Bill Clinton on the saxophone? Havel’s political and private dramas behind the scenes were captured on camera from 1992 by director Pavel Koutecký, after whose tragic death the project was taken up by his colleague Miroslav Janek.

Credits

Director: Miroslav Janek, Pavel Koutecký

Based on: Pavel Koutecký

Screenplay: Pavel Koutecký, Miroslav Janek

Cinematography: Stano Slušný

Sound: Viktor Ekrt

Editing: Tonička Janková

Producer: Jarmila Poláková

Co-production: Pavel Strnad, Michael Wolkowitz, Jan Krása, David Dušek

Cast: Václav Havel, Bill Clinton, Jan Tříska, Václav Klaus, Dagmar Havlová, George W. Bush, Miloš Zeman, Ladislav Smoljak, Mick Jagger, Táňa Fischerová, Keith Richards, Milan Mejla Hlavsa, Eva Holubová, Barbora Hrzánová

Links

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