Czech director-writer-producer Slávek Horák, who was chosen as one of Variety’s 10 Directors to Watch three years ago, has received 14.5 million Czech Koruna from the Czech Film Fund for his second feature film, a biopic of Václav Havel, the Czech playwright and dissident, who became President of Czechoslovakia, and later President of the Czech Republic.
“Havel,” produced by Horák’s company Tvorba Films, will follow his life from the Prague Spring in 1968 to the Velvet Revolution in 1989, when Havel became Czechoslovakia’s President. As well as covering Havel’s experiences as a dissident and his time in prison, it will also deal with his relationship with his wife Olga. The film will shoot next September and October, and will premiere in spring 2020.
At the start of his career, Horak served as second assistant director on Jan Sverak’s 1996 Oscar winner, “Kolya,” and later forged a successful career in advertising.
His 2015 feature debut,...
“Havel,” produced by Horák’s company Tvorba Films, will follow his life from the Prague Spring in 1968 to the Velvet Revolution in 1989, when Havel became Czechoslovakia’s President. As well as covering Havel’s experiences as a dissident and his time in prison, it will also deal with his relationship with his wife Olga. The film will shoot next September and October, and will premiere in spring 2020.
At the start of his career, Horak served as second assistant director on Jan Sverak’s 1996 Oscar winner, “Kolya,” and later forged a successful career in advertising.
His 2015 feature debut,...
- 12/14/2018
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
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