Steven Gaydos Executive VP of ContentIt’s been more than 30 years since the Berlin Wall fell and hundreds of millions of people threw off the yoke of Russian Soviet communism, but the issues of freedom and democracy have lost none of their relevance, while phrases such as “Russian influence,” “the resistance” and “the wall” are fraught with new meanings and fresh urgency.Slávek Horák’s “Havel,” from the Czech Republic, doesn’t simply remind us of the vision and heroic role the former Czech president Vaclav Havel played in those historic changes, but its incisive and often troubling portrait of the playwright-turned-statesman also churns up thorny issues about populist revolts and the personal roles and responsibilities of both leaders and.
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