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Karel Vachek: Poet Provocateur

Sunday, June 14, 2009
2:00 p.m. Who Will Watch the Watchman? Dalibor, or The Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Karel Vachek (Czech Republic, 2003)

(Kdo bude hlídat hlídače? Dalibor aneb Klíč k Chaloupce strýčka Toma). Filmed during a piano rehearsal of Bedřich Smetana’s opera Dalibor, in Prague’s art nouveau National Theatre, Who Will Watch the Watchman? presents an array of original thinkers musing about the current state of the State. Vachek is particularly interested in oppositional battles, whether won, lost, or ongoing, and in airing minority opinions.

• (242 mins, In Czech with English subtitles, Color, 35mm)