VHL Film Marathon VI: Václav Havel (Not Only) in the Mirror of Communist Propaganda
- Where: Montmartre Gallery
- When: June 25, 2013, 18:00 – 23:45
Immediately after the creation of Charter 77, the dissent and Václav Havel personally became the target of a repeated and seditious campaign on the part of the Communist-controlled media, including Czech Television. Its propaganda programmes deformed reality and frequently discredited, ridiculed or by contrast demonized the political opposition. Information that penetrated the country from the West was presented as singularly objectionable and ideologically unfriendly.
It is telling that the producers of many such TV programmes remained anonymous.
Screenings:
Tryzna (Commemoration) (directed by V. Kubenko, 23 min.)
Atentát na kulturu (Attack on Culture) (directed by L. Chocholoušek, 1977, 25 min.)
Kdo je Václav Havel? (Who is Václav Havel?) (Czechoslovak Television 1977, 11 min.)
EM 4 přichází (EM 4 Is Coming) (ČSTV 1981, cca 20 min.)
Ideologická diverse (Ideological Diversion) (directed by P. Fojtík, 1988, 95 min.)
Kamelot (Camelot) (Czechoslovak Television 1989, 15 min.)