Underplayed Gems

Citizen Havel Is Rolling the Empty Barrels (2009)

Citizen Havel Is Rolling the Empty Barrels poster
Original title
Občan Havel přikuluje
Directed by
Jan Novák, Adam Novák
Genre
documentary film
Country
Czech Republic
Runtime
1h 12m
Rated
U
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

This documentary follows Vaclav Havel as he works in a brewery and shows the people he met there. It also looks at his play Audience which was inspired by that job.

observationalgroundednostalgicintimateunderstateddocumentary-style

What happens

Občan Havel přikuluje s podtitulem akční film o lásce k pivu (2009) je dokumentární snímek Jana a Adama Novákových nominovaný na Českého lva 2009. Pojednává o Havlově práci v trutnovském pivovaru a o jeho hře Audience, kterou napsal inspirován právě svou prací a lidmi, se kterými se během ní setkával. Ve filmu kromě Václava Havla vystupují také jeho známí z disentu (Pavel Landovský, Ivan Martin Jirous, John Bok, Vladimír Pistorius, Stanislav Milota, Jiří Gruntorád), herci Jan Hartl a Jiřina Bohdalová, Vlastimil Třešňák, Vladimír Merta, u kterého se Audience nahrávala, ale i tehdejší Havlovi spolupracovníci z pivovaru (Arnošt Šarkózy) a také příslušníci StB. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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