Sunday, July 26, 2009

Citizen Havel

This movies assumes you know his background of him being the dissident and playwright and misses many key moments in the Presidency of Havel. It does however give you insight into the daily workings of the machinations of the Czech Republic. It takes up from when the split from Slovania happened. There were some editing issues. The wife died and the only lead up to it was seeing her coffin followed incredibly closely by his new wife. You get to hear the stage managing of comments and his minions running around. I found it a great springboard to read his Wikipedia entry and filled in the missing gaps for me. It has that "Eastern European" cloddishness to it however I did enjoy this movie (...but then again after standing in Wenchelas Square during the velvet revolution in '89...I have a special spot for Prague).

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