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  • Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
  • When: October 2, 2018, 10:00 – 12:00

The documentary film Olga (2014, 84 min., Czech with English titles) by the well-known Czech director Miroslav Janek is a portrait of Olga Havlová, one of the most noteworthy Czech women of the 20thcentury. The police couldn’t break her and the Castle didn’t change her. Though she came from a working class background, she became an essential element of the Czech cultural and intellectual world in the 1950s and 1960s, offering critical assessments of her husband’s work and supporting him in the toughest periods following the creation of Charter 77. The film documents Olga’s world and time as well as her highly original outlook.

The film will be screened as part of the COURAGE-PAREVO international festival of documentary films, which is one of the high points of the three-year international research project COURAGE: Cultural opposition – understanding the cultural legacy of dissent in the countries of the former socialist bloc.

For more go to www.cultural-opposition.eu

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