Václav Havel (1936–2011)

Writer | Actor | Director

Václav Havel was born on October 5, 1936 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]. He was a ...

Born: October 5, 1936
Died: December 18, 2011 (age 75)

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Filmography

Known For

Leaving Writer (2011)
The Beggar's Opera Writer (1991)
Television Theater Writer (2017)
Known For

Heart Beat 3D Writer (2010)
Writer

Television Theater (2017)
Leaving (2011)
Heart Beat 3D (2010)
Leaving (2010)
The Garden Party (2010)
The Anatomy of Gag (2008)
The Mountain Hotel (1999)
The Increased Difficulty of Concentration (1998)
My Beautiful Bohemia (1998)
Mlýny (1994)
La faute (1994)
Zítra to spustíme (1992)
Largo desolato (1991)
Butterfly on the Antenna (1991)
Largo desolato (1991)
The Beggar's Opera (1991)
Vanek-Trilogie (1991)
Audience (1990)
Vernisáz (1990)
Largo Desolato (1990)
Audiencia (1989)
Pétition (1987)
Protest (1986)
Largo desolato (1985)
Protesten (1982)
Play for Today (1978-1981)
Audiens (1981)
The Memorandum (1981)
Protest (1981)
Audiens (1981)
Vernissage (1980)
Audience (1980)
Audiens (1980)
Innvielse (1977)
O Escritório (1977)
Sirkulæret (1972)
The Increased Difficulty of Concentration (1970)
Von der Schwierigkeit, sich zu konzentrieren (1969)
Cirkulæret (1968)
Die Benachrichtigung (1968)
Theatre 625 (1967)
The Garden Party (1966)
Writer

Vyrozumení (1965)
Actor

Leaving (2011)
Up and Down The President (2004)
Stone Bridge President (1996)
Inventura (1981)
Actor

Kazdy mlady muz Patient (1966)
Director

Leaving (2011)
Archive footage

The Art of Dissent (2021)
Zappa (2020)
Komunismus a sít aneb Konec zastupitelské demokracie (2020)
Epocha mezi srpnem a listopadem (2019)
Amnestie (2019)
Vive la Revolution! Joan Bakewell on May '68 (2018)
Dejiny neposlusnosti (2017)
Meciar (2017)
The Eighties (2016)
Eat That Question (2016)
Václav Havel: un homme libre (2014)
The 50 Year Argument (2014)
The Presence of Arnost Lustig (2013)
Vera 68 (2012)
Farewell Comrades! (2011-2012)
Hammer & Tickle (2006)
Etiketa (2004)
Get Up, Stand Up (2003)
Bigbít (1998-2001)
Ekohistorie (2000)
Reeling in the Years (1999)
Disparus (1998)
Children of the Revolution (1996)
Ceská soda (1994)
Archive footage

The Rock 'n' Roll Years (1994)
Not Necessarily the News (1989)

Videos

Awards

1 win & 2 nominations.

Did You Know

His play, "Largo Desolato" in a Mark Taper Forum production at the Mark Taper Forum Too in Los Angeles, California was awarded the 1987 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Distinguished Production.

Quotes

[on Bohumil Hrabal] The first texts by Hrabal were absolutely breathtaking, like Jarmilka. It was a very short novel - it was rough, it was almost surreal, it was mysterious, it had a very tense note to it. Later, in the sixties, Hrabal started to ...