What Is to Be Done? A Journey from Prague to Ceský Krumlov, or How I Formed a New Government

1996

3h 34m

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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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63 members

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Eva Votrubová

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Lubomír Michalica

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Karel Vachek

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Josef Pepa Nos

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Jiří Haager

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Eda Kriseová

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Jiří Krejčík

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Miloš Kirschner

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Andrej Stankovič

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Vlasta Chramostová

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Eva Zvolská

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Stanislav Milota

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Jan Vodňanský

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Ivan Martin Jirous

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Milan Nakonečný

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Tomáš Vorel

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Eva Kantůrková

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Ladislav Novák

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Karel Drbohlav

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Václav Žilka

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Erazim Kohák

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Václav Jamek

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Jan Černý

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Inge Švandová

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Jan Vondrouš

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Benedikt Braun

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Helena Braunová

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Rudolf Švec

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Pavel Slavko

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Jiří Havlík

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Arnošt Bednář

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Jiří Prokopec

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Jana Pešková

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Petr Pešek

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Hilda Seidelová

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František Seidel

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Miroslav Páral

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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

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Josef Vacek

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Rudolf Soukal

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Pavel Tigrid

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Jan Ruml

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Josef Zieleniec

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Karel Dyba

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Vladimír Dlouhý

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Antonín Baudyš

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Vilém Holáň

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Jan Stráský

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Ivan Pilip

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Václav Klaus

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Václav Havel

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Jan Koukal

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Ivan Sviták

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Ivan Dejmal

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Miloš Zeman

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Václav Benda

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Alena Hromádková

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Petr Cibulka

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