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](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/494/494711_a73100.jpg)
Karel Vachek
Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
![Egon Bondy](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/158/064/158064202_5dd371.jpg)
Egon Bondy
Czechoslovakia
![Vlasta Chramostová](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/268/268290_3dd93f.jpg)
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](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/168/003/168003963_yfsda3.jpg)
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](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/099/533/99533871_0f3872.jpg)
Pavel Dostál
Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
Best movies:
Co Hedvika neřekla (1995) (TV movie)
The Magic Receiver (2001)
![Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/268/159268163_1002ea.jpg)
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Faraway, So Close! (1993)
![Karel Gott](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/099/162099107_2c3205.jpg)
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](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/276/276404_3ebbaf.jpg)
Václav Havel
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Nineties (2022) (series) - a.f.
Marta Kubišová 1990 (1990) (concert)
Largo desolato (1991) (theatrical recording) - narrator
![Václav Klaus](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/276/276818_2d7ad2.jpg)
Václav Klaus
Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
Best movies:
Nineties (2022) (series) - a.f.
President Blaník (2018)
Bestiarium (2007)
![Milan Kňažko](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/268/268714_f4552b.jpg)
Milan Kňažko
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Picasso (2008) (theatrical recording)
Rok na dedine (1967) (TV movie)
Adolf Eichmann (1988) (TV movie)
![Michael Kocáb](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/136/794/136794878_7b87ca.jpg)
Michael Kocáb
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Martha et moi (1990)
Pražákům, těm je hej (1990)
The Magic Galoshes (1986)
![Daniela Kolářová](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/484/159484784_9188d1.jpg)
Daniela Kolářová
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
The Elementary School (1991)
Secluded, Near Woods (1976)
Sňatky z rozumu (1968) (series)
![Rafael Kubelík](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/165/341/165341504_e1b5ca.jpg)
Rafael Kubelík
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Kolya (1996)
Jiný vzduch (1939)
![Stanislav Milota](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/359/359092_421d66.jpg)
Stanislav Milota
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Leaving (2011)
![Miloš Zeman](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/099/533/99533828_a33ed7.jpg)
Miloš Zeman
Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
Best movies:
Nineties (2022) (series) - a.f.
Candidate (2013)
President Blaník (2018)
![Pope John Paul II](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/158/599/158599165_356ed1.jpg)
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](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/158/156/158156378_e31aa5.jpg)
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.
Good Bye Lenin! (2003) - a.f.