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Karel Vachek: Poet Provocateur

Sunday, June 21, 2009
2:00 p.m. What Is to Be Done? (A Journey from Prague to Český Krumlov, or How I Formed a New Government)
Karel Vachek (Czech Republic, 1996)

Karel Vachek in Person


(Co dělat? (Cesta z Prahy do Českého Krumlova aneb Jak jsem sestavoval vládu)). Czechoslavakia has divided, and the right-wing government of Václav Klaus is in power. For his best-known recent film, Vachek fills two buses with outsiders—artists and intellectuals, including Ivan Martin Jirous, leader of the Plastic People of the Universe, and poet Andrej Stankovic—and drives to the historic town of Český Krumlov on the outskirts of the Czech Republic, debating political and cultural events along the way.

• (216 mins, In Czech and German with English subtitles, Color, 35mm)