Václav Havel Movies

The documentary explores the presidency of Václav Havel, a poet who unexpectedly became president. The film, starting in 1992, captures...

A moving account, in his own words, of the personal life and work of the brilliant Czech filmmaker Miloš Forman (1932-2018): his tragic...

The ruined castle is inhabited by architects who, feeling the spirit of the place, want to direct the modernization of the settlement below the...

Documentary about Polish poet and Nobel Prize winner Wisława Szymborska.

A dissident Czechoslovakian playwright awaits trial for his activities against the current political regime.

A first-hand account of the tumultuous events of 1989 when a student-led revolution succeeded in overthrowing Czechoslovakia's repressive Communist...

This quirky documentary follows Vaclav Havel on an eye-opening journey across his native Czechoslovakia in the days before he became president of the...

Unlike any other opera, the so-called Beggar's Opera is not just one composition, but a lineage of adapted compositions, beginning with the original...

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...

This time-lapse documentary follows the last years of former President Václav Havel's life, creating a multi-layered portrait of a...

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...

Spotlights the Velvet Underground's 1993 reunion tour of Europe, interspersing footage of the band's Paris concert and interviews with the members of...

From the behavior, discourse, and appearance of individual actors, Vachek composes, in the form of a mosaic, a broad and many-layered film-argument...

"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...

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

Quite a few years have passed since November 1989. Czechoslovakia has been divided up and, in the Czech Republic, Václav Klaus’s...