Citizen Vaclav Havel Goes on Vacation(2006)

movie - first aired/released 2006-10-04 - audience 7.0

Directed by Jan Novák

This quirky documentary follows Vaclav Havel on an eye-opening journey across his native Czechoslovakia in the days before he became president of the Czech Republic. A leading playwright, essayist, intellectual and political dissident in 1985, Havel decides to explore the limits of the secret police by traveling and visiting a variety of friends. Along the way, he's thrown in jail twice and followed by hundreds of undercover cops.