Citizen Vaclav Havel Goes on Vacation
MovieTitle | Občan Václav Havel jede na dovolenou |
User score | 7 |
Release date | Oct 4, 2006 |
Genre | Documentary |
Director | Adam Novák , Jan Novák |
Production country | Czech Republic |
Run time | 85 min. |
This quirky documentary follows Vaclav Havel on an eye-opening journey across his native Czechoslovakia in the days before he became president of the Czech Republic. A leading playwright, essayist, intellectual and political dissident in 1985, Havel decides to explore the limits of the secret police by traveling and visiting a variety of friends. Along the way, he's thrown in jail twice and followed by hundreds of undercover cops.