Václav Havel Movies

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

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

Meet The Plastic People of the Universe, the avant-garde, jazz-rock, Sun Ra meets Velvet Underground, Czech revolutionaries. A tribute to the band...

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

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

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...

Vera Cáslavská, the most successful Czechoslovak sportswoman and the fourth most successful Olympic sportswoman globally, won seven...

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...

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

A labyrinthine portrait of Czech culture on the brink of a new millennium. Egon Bondy prophesies a capitalist inferno, Jim Čert admits to...

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...

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

Documentary about Polish poet and Nobel Prize winner Wisława Szymborska.

Olga Havlová was the closest and most trustworthy companion of Václav Havel. A friend who was always generous with her time. She was an...

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...

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