Občan Havel is a documentary film that portrays the life and career of Czech President Václav Havel. The film focuses on his role as a writer and his contributions to Czech history. It also delves into his personal life, including his experiences as a widower and his wedding in the year 1989.
On 26 September 1928, Karel Capek and President T.G. Masaryk meet in the gardens of Topolcianky castle to decide about the fate of their joint literary work. Their fiction film dialogue is based on quotes from a future book and their mutual correspondence, considerably freeing the original format of literary conversation from binding conventions. Capek and Masaryk reproach and offend each other, but they also ask key personal questions and questions about the social functions of a writer and politician respectively. "It's a film about two extraordinary men; it's about the fact that emotions can be sometimes more powerful than ideas even in such exceptional people.
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