Cast & creator
Václav Havel
Best known for American Playhouse, Play for Today, Theatre 625
Václav Havel (5 October 1936 – 18 December 2011) was a Czech statesman, author, poet, playwright, and former dissident. Havel served as the last president of Czechoslovakia from 1989 until the dissolution of Czechoslovakia on 31 December 1992 and then as the first president of the Czech Republic from 1993 to 2003. He was the first democratically elected president of either country after the fall of communism. As a writer of Czech literature, he is known for his plays, essays, and memoirs.
68
film credits
6
television credits
52
1964–2024 · acting roles
7.2
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (74)
Showing 74 of 74 credits
American Playhouse
Self (voice)
1982
Play for Today
Writer
1970
Theatre 625
Theatre Play
1964
HARDtalk
1997Goldene Henne
Self
1995
Zappa
Self - President of Czechoslovakia (archive footage)
2020
Leaving
2011Leaving
Director
2011Leaving
Theatre Play
2011Leaving
Screenplay
2011
Věra 68
Himself
2012
Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words
Self (archive footage)
2016
Wisdom
Self
2008
Mečiar: The Lust For Power
2017
Hammer & Tickle
Self (archive footage)
2007
Citizen Havel
Self
2008
The Lost World of Communism
2009
Life Is Bearable at Times...
2010Rolling Stones – Hearts for Prague
Self
2018
Mlýny
Writer
1994
Audiens
Theatre Play
1981
Late Night Talks with Mother
Václav Havel
2003The Stock-Check
1981
Czechoslovakia: Portrait of a Tragedy
Self
1968An Occasion to Speak
Self
1966
Citizen Vaclav Havel Goes on Vacation
2006
The Power of Good: Nicholas Winton
Self
2003
Sorry...
Writer
1978
Czech Made Man
jako host
2011Divadlo Svoboda
Self
2011
Why Are You So Sad?
Writer
1989
Elizabeth II: Three days in the Czech Republic
Self (archive footage)
2022TGM the Liberator
Self
1990
Lou Reed: Rock and Roll Heart
Self
1998New Hyperion or Liberty, Equality, Brotherhood
Self
1992
Curious: The Velvet Underground in Europe
Self
1993The Presence of Arnošt Lustig
Self
2012
Protest
Writer
1981
The Plastic People of the Universe
Self
2001Largo Desolato
Theatre Play
1990Zánik Československa v parlamentu
Self
2024Bohemia Docta or the Labyrinth of the World and the Lust-House of the Heart (A Divine Comedy)
2000A znovu Žebrácká opera
Self
1996Václav Havel : L'éternel insurgé
lui-même
2009
Václav Havel - Living in Freedom
Himself (archive footage)
2014What Is to Be Done? A Journey from Prague to Ceský Krumlov, or How I Formed a New Government
Self
1996Citizen Havel Rolls Another Barrel
Self
2009
Forman vs. Forman
Self - Friend (archive footage)
2019Zítra to spustíme
Theatre Play
1992
Jak odchází prezident...
Self (archive footage)
2016Ján Langoš – strážca pamäti
Self (archive footage)
2023
Blue Moon Once
Writer
2023
Bill Moyers: Beyond Hate
1991
Why Havel?
Václav Havel
1991
Eye Over Prague
2010Motýl na anténě
Theatre Play
1991
Olga
Self
2014
Vaclav Havel, ein böhmisches Märchen
Self
1993
The Beggar's Opera
Screenplay
1991The Beggar's Opera
Theatre Play
1991
I am Fishead
himself
2011
Drawn from Memory
Self (voice)
1995
Havel Speaking, Can You Hear Me?
Self (archive footage)
2024
Audience
Theatre Play
1990
Stone Bridge
President
1996
Every Young Man
trpěliví
1966
November's Children: Revolution in Prague
1991Anatomie gagu
2008Pétition
Writer
1987
Heart Beat 3D
Writer
2010Mlha
1966Mlha
Dramaturgy
1966Redevelopment
Writer
1991Vernisáž
Theatre Play
1990