Havel
Jul 23 2020
•2h 44m
•Drama
The life career of Václav Havel (1936-2011), a persecuted playwright and human rights defender in the Czech Republic subjected to the implacable power of the Soviet Union who became president of the country in the late 1980s.
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Viktor Dvořák
Václav Havel
Anna Geislerová
Olga Havlová
Martin Hofmann
Pavel Landovský
Stanislav Majer
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