What Is to Be Done? A Journey from Prague to Ceský Krumlov, or How I Formed a New Government
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Overview
Quite a few years have passed since November 1989. Czechoslovakia has been divided up and, in the Czech Republic, Václav Klaus’s right-wing government is in power. Karel Vachek follows on from his film New Hyperion, thus continuing his series of comprehensive film documentaries in which he maps out Czech society and its real and imagined elites in his own unique way.
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Runtime
214 min
Release Date
1996-08-29
Status
Released
Original Language
Czech
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Eva Votrubová
Self
Lubomír Michalica
Self
Karel Vachek
Self
Josef Pepa Nos
Self
Jiří Haager
Self (archive footage)
Eda Kriseová
Self
Jiří Krejčík
Self
Miloš Kirschner
Self
Andrej Stankovic
Self
Vlasta Chramostová
Self
Eva Zvolská
Self
Stanislav Milota
Self
Jan Vodňanský
Self
Ivan Martin Jirous
Self
Milan Nakonečný
Self
Tomáš Vorel
Self
Eva Kantůrková
Self
Ladislav Novák
Self
Karel Drbohlav
Self
Václav Žilka
Self
Erazim Kohák
Self
Václav Jamek
Self
Jan Černý
Self
Inge Švandová
Self
Jan Vondrouš
Self
Benedikt Braun
Self
Helena Braunová
Self
Rudolf Švec
Self
Pavel Slavko
Self
Jiří Havlík
Self
Arnošt Bednář
Self
Jiří Prokopec
Self
Jana Pešková
Self
Petr Pešek
Self
Hilda Seidelová
Self
František Seidel
Self
Miroslav Páral
Self
Antonín Zwiefelhofer
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František Hladký
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Josef Šuga
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Václav Mára
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Ludovít Cirok
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Bohumil Novotný
Self
Josef Vacek
Self
Rudolf Soukal
Self
Pavel Tigrid
Self
Jan Ruml
Self
Josef Zieleniec
Self
Karel Dyba
Self
Vladimír Dlouhý
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Antonín Baudys
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Vilém Holáň
Self
Jan Stráský
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Ivan Pilip
Self
Václav Klaus
Self
Václav Havel
Self
Jan Koukal
Self
Ivan Sviták
Self
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Self
Miloš Zeman
Self
Václav Benda
Self
Alena Hromádková
Self
Petr Cibulka
Self
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