Alexander Dubček

Acting

Alexander Dubček

Born 1921-11-27 · Uhrovec, Slovakia

Alexander Dubček was a Slovak statesman who served as the First Secretary of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia from January 1968 to April 1969 and as Chairman of the Federal Assembly from 1989 to 1992 following the Velvet Revolution.

Acting credits

Elective Affinities poster
5.0

Documentary showing the Czechoslovakian political landscape in March 1968, when president Antonin Novotny, a hardline Stalinist, stepped down and moderate communist Ludvik Svoboda was elected. Five months later, in August 68, the Prague Spring would end with the military intervention of the Warsaw Pact.

Elective Affinities

1968

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Korene budúcnosti

1995

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Czechoslovakia: Portrait of a Tragedy

1968

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NR

Documentary film from the nationwide celebrations of the centenary of the foundation stone of the National Theater in Prague.

100 let

1968

Ceausescu: Behind the Myth poster
3.0

Veteran journalist and author Edward Behr spent a year investigating the rise and fall of Nicolae Ceausescu. Executed on Christmas Day 1989, Ceausescu was once a hero to his own people, and in the west. Behr's film reveals the truth behind the myth, in a tale of megalomania, farce, and horror.

Ceausescu: Behind the Myth

1991

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Vtedy v auguste

1990

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8.0

From the behavior, discourse, and appearance of individual actors, Vachek composes, in the form of a mosaic, a broad and many-layered film-argument about Czechoslovak democracy in the period of its rebirth, all administered with the director’s ini­mitable point of view.

New Hyperion or Liberty, Equality, Brotherhood

1992

Oratorio for Prague poster
6.9

A unique document of the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, what began as a documentary about the liberalization of Czechoslovakia evolved into a record of the entry of Russian tanks into Prague.

Oratorio for Prague

1968

Czechoslovakia 1968 poster
6.4

Short documentary about 50 years of history of Czechoslovakia, with archive images.

Czechoslovakia 1968

1969

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Začátek konce

1999