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Karel Vachek: Poet Provocateur

Sunday, May 31, 2009
2:00 p.m. New Hyperion, or Liberty, Equality, Brotherhood
Karel Vachek (Czechoslovakia, 1992)

(Nový Hyperion aneb Volnost, rovnost, bratrství). After the collapse of the communist regime, Czechoslavakia holds its first democratic elections since 1945. In this period of heightened political activity and social upheaval, the Pope pays a visit, Václav Havel is elected president, and both Mikhail Gorbachev and Alexander Dubček depart. Activists, artists, politicians, spies, and dissidents discuss the unfolding events in a mosaic of points of view, a “real and incomplete story.”

• (207 mins, In Czech, Slovak, Russian, English, and German with English subtitles, Color, 35mm)