Havel

Jul 23, 2020

1h 44m

★ 5.2

Overview

The life career of Václav Havel (1936-2011), a persecuted playwright and human rights defender in the Czech Republic subjected to the implacable power of the Soviet Union who became president of the country in the late 1980s.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Česká televize

TVORBA films

Havel Trailers

Cast

Václav Havel

Viktor Dvořák

Olga Havlová

Anna Geislerová

Pavel Landovský

Martin Hofmann

Stanislav Majer

Barbora Seidlová

Jiří Bartoška

Jenovéfa Boková

Alexander Dubček

Adrian Jastraban

Anna

Natalia Germani

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