Czechoslovakia 1968 (1969)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Short documentary about 50 years of history of Czechoslovakia, with archive images.
Oratorio for Prague (1968)
Character: Self (archive footage)
A unique document of the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, what began as a documentary about the liberalization of Czechoslovakia evolved into a record of the entry of Russian tanks into Prague.
Nový Hyperion aneb Volnost, rovnost, bratrství (1992)
Character: Self
From the behavior, discourse, and appearance of individual actors, Vachek composes, in the form of a mosaic, a broad and many-layered film-argument about Czechoslovak democracy in the period of its rebirth, all administered with the director’s inimitable point of view.
Spřízněni volbou (1968)
Character: Self
Documentary showing the Czechoslovakian political landscape in March 1968, when president Antonin Novotny, a hardline Stalinist, stepped down and moderate communist Ludvik Svoboda was elected. Five months later, in August 68, the Prague Spring would end with the military intervention of the Warsaw Pact.
Ceausescu: Behind the Myth (1991)
Character: Self
Veteran journalist and author Edward Behr spent a year investigating the rise and fall of Nicolae Ceausescu. Executed on Christmas Day 1989, Ceausescu was once a hero to his own people, and in the west. Behr's film reveals the truth behind the myth, in a tale of megalomania, farce, and horror.
100 let (1968)
Character: Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Documentary film from the nationwide celebrations of the centenary of the foundation stone of the National Theater in Prague.
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