Archive: Year 2008
International Dox
Citizen Havel - Občan Havel
Director
Pavel Koutecky and
Producer
Jarmila Polkov
Cinematographer
Stano Slusny
Editor
Tonicka Janek
Contact
[email protected] www.negativ.cz
France, Denmark, Ukraine, Turkey, Czech Republic
120 min
Color
After the split of Czechoslovakia in 1992, former political dissident, leader of the Velvet Revolution, playwright and essayist Vaclav Havel became the first president of a new country, the Czech Republic. Thus it came to pass that a former enemy of the state was actually given the popular mandate to transform that state and its institutions. Such events are not commonplace so, from day one, he permitted his friend, filmmaker Pavel Koutecky, to be with him, to capture as much of it as possible, whether in the Prague Castle or around the world. The result is CITIZEN HAVEL, a feature-length documentary of never-before-seen footage that provides an intimate look at a man thrust into the spotlight of international politics and celebrity, trying to maintain a balance between public and personal life while bringing his nation out of its communist past and into a free, democratic future.
Pavel Koutecký, born on 10 June1956, Prague. 1982: graduated from the School of Film, Television and Photography (FAMU), Prague. 1988 and 1991: study-stays at the National Film and Television School, Beaconsfield, England; multimedia projects with the Kolotoč and Divadlo Hudby theatres. 1991 to the present: Lecturer at the Department of Documentary Film, FAMU, where he heads a workshop.
Miroslav Janek, born 1954, Náchod, Czechoslovakia. Began as an amateur and wrote, directed and produced nearly forty short films. He also worked as an editor for Czechoslovak Television before immigrating to the United States in 1979. He currently resides in Prague and has taught at the documentary department of Prague’s Film Academy (FAMU) since 1998.
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