Directed by:
Karel VachekScreenplay:
Karel VachekCast:
Karel Vachek, Egon Bondy, Vlasta Chramostová, Ivan Martin Jirous, Iveta Bartošová, John Bok, Pavel Dostál, Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, Karel Gott (more)Plots(1)
Karel Vachek's 200-minute documentary novel depicts the nearly six months leading up to the first free election in post-Velvet Revolution Czechoslovakia. Vachek entrusted the lens to kindred cameramen Ivan Vojnár and Karel Slach. Personalities FROM Czech political and cultural life star in performances pieced together INTO a new relation to the grotesque theater of the world. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Karel Vachek
Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
Egon Bondy
Czechoslovakia
Vlasta Chramostová
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
The Cremator (1968)
Hrdinové okamžiku (1961) (series)
The White Lady (1965)
Ivan Martin Jirous
Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
Iveta Bartošová
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Hity 89 (1989) (concert)
Karel Svoboda 65 (2004) (concert)
Zlatý Slavík 1989 (1990) (concert)
John Bok
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Veterán (2020) (TV movie)
Rapid Eye Movement (1998)
Pavel Dostál
Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
Best movies:
Co Hedvika neřekla (1995) (TV movie)
The Magic Receiver (2001)
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Faraway, So Close! (1993)
Karel Gott
Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
Best movies:
Semafor - Největší hity (2005) (video compilation)
Nineties (2022) (series) - a.f.
Dvacet let Olympicu (1983) (concert)
Václav Havel
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Nineties (2022) (series) - a.f.
Marta Kubišová 1990 (1990) (concert)
Largo desolato (1991) (theatrical recording) - narrator
Václav Klaus
Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
Best movies:
Nineties (2022) (series) - a.f.
President Blaník (2018)
Bestiarium (2007)
Milan Kňažko
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Picasso (2008) (theatrical recording)
Rok na dedine (1967) (TV movie)
Adolf Eichmann (1988) (TV movie)
Michael Kocáb
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Martha et moi (1990)
Pražákům, těm je hej (1990)
The Magic Galoshes (1986)
Daniela Kolářová
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
The Elementary School (1991)
Secluded, Near Woods (1976)
Sňatky z rozumu (1968) (series)
Rafael Kubelík
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Kolya (1996)
Jiný vzduch (1939)
Stanislav Milota
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Leaving (2011)
Miloš Zeman
Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
Best movies:
Nineties (2022) (series) - a.f.
Candidate (2013)
President Blaník (2018)
Pope John Paul II
Poland
Best movies:
Nineties (2022) (series) - a.f.
Karol. Człowiek, który został papieżem (2005) (TV movie)
Apparitions at Fatima (1992)
Alexander Dubček
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Invasion (1980) (TV movie) - a.f.
Jan Palach (2018) - a.f.
Dubček (2018) - a.f.
Willy Brandt
German Empire
Best movies:
The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008) - a.f.
Sources of Life (2013) - a.f.
Goodbye Lenin! (2003) - a.f.