Film screening: Magicky hlas rebelky (The Magical Voice of a Rebel)

Activity Type: 
Film
Date: 
Saturday, November 15, 2014 - 18:30 to 20:00
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Location: 
Frick Fine Arts Auditorium
Contact Person: 
Gina Peirce
Contact Phone: 
412-648-2290
Contact Email: 
gbpeirce@pitt.edu
Cost: 
Free

This is the first film in the series, "The Play's the Thing: Vaclav Havel, Art and Politics," presented at Pitt by the Czechoslovak Nationality Room courtesy of the Czech Embassy. "Magicky hlas rebelky" is a 2014 documentary about the Czech singer Marta Kubisova, who has become a symbol in the Czech Republic of the period in history known as the Velvet Revolution (1989), when a mass protest movement led to the fall of communism in Czechoslovakia. The film includes segments of members of the dissident organization Charter 77, including former Czech President Vaclav Havel. It received the audience award at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival this year and is currently showing in movie theaters throughout the Czech Republic. The producers are making screenings available in the U.S. in commemoration of the 25th year since the Velvet Revolution. This film is in Czech with English subtitles.

UCIS Unit: 
Center for Russian East European and Eurasian Studies
Nationality Rooms and Intercultural Exchange Programs
Non-University Sponsors: 
Honorary Consul of the Czech Embassy
World Regions: 
Europe
Russia/Eastern Europe
European Union