Havel Speaking, Can You Hear Me?

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Director:Petr Jančárek
Premiere:11. April 2024
Length:86 minutes
Genre:Document

Havel Speaking, Can You Hear Me?

Tady Havel, slyšíte mě?; Petr Jančárek, 2023, versions: OR, languages: ces

Časozberný film sleduje posledné roky života bývalého prezidenta Václava Havla.

Director: Petr Jančárek

Petr Jančárek: This Is Havel Speaking, Can You Hear Me?

director: Petr Jančárek

original title: Petr Jančárek: Tady Havel, slyšíte mě?

country: Czech Republic

running time: 90 min.

synopsis

In April 2009, Václav Havel proposed to director Petr Jančárek to “… film the rest of his life”.

Their almost three-year collaboration, ended with Havel's death, characterized total openness, the ex-president's confidence in the director and the creator's responsibility towards his hero. Feature documentary This Is Havel Speaking, Can You Hear Me? arises from unique material, profiting from the non-existent distinction between the private and public forms of the world personality. According to the director, "it certainly does not intend to become a formally polished monument to the giant or slogan in the encyclopedia of world statesmen."

For the first time, parts of an exceptional film will be screened at the Ji.hlava festival. The discussion will be focused on the relationship between the creator and statesman, the development of the project and its author concept.

Length: 86 min

Year: 2023
Local premiere date: 11. April 2024

Country of origin:

  • Czech Republic

Language version:

OR - Original version (czech)
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30. 4. Tuesday

7,00 18:00
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4. 5. Saturday

7,00 18:30
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8. 5. Wednesday

7,00 16:20

Časozberný film sleduje posledné roky života bývalého prezidenta Václava Havla.

Director: Petr Jančárek

Petr Jančárek: This Is Havel Speaking, Can You Hear Me?

director: Petr Jančárek

original title: Petr Jančárek: Tady Havel, slyšíte mě?

country: Czech Republic

running time: 90 min.

synopsis

In April 2009, Václav Havel proposed to director Petr Jančárek to “… film the rest of his life”.

Their almost three-year collaboration, ended with Havel's death, characterized total openness, the ex-president's confidence in the director and the creator's responsibility towards his hero. Feature documentary This Is Havel Speaking, Can You Hear Me? arises from unique material, profiting from the non-existent distinction between the private and public forms of the world personality. According to the director, "it certainly does not intend to become a formally polished monument to the giant or slogan in the encyclopedia of world statesmen."

For the first time, parts of an exceptional film will be screened at the Ji.hlava festival. The discussion will be focused on the relationship between the creator and statesman, the development of the project and its author concept.

Year: 2023
Local premiere date: 11. April 2024

Country of origin:

  • Czech Republic

Language version:

OR - Original version (czech)


Programme

2DOR

30. 4. today

K1
7,00 18:00
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4. 5. Saturday

K4
7,00 18:30
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8. 5. Wednesday

K3
7,00 16:20