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.

Filmography

• 2023Blue Moon Once — Writer
• 2017Mečiar: The Lust For Power
• 2011Czech Made Man — jako host
• 2011Leaving — Director, Theatre Play, Screenplay
• 2010Eye Over Prague
• 2010Heart Beat 3D — Writer
• 2010Life Is Bearable at Times...
• The Lost World of Communism
• 2009Václav Havel : L'éternel insurgé — lui-même
• 2008Anatomie gagu
• 2006Citizen Vaclav Havel Goes on Vacation
• 2003Late Night Talks with Mother — Václav Havel
• 2000Bohemia Docta or the Labyrinth of the World and the Lust-House of the Heart (A Divine Comedy)
• HARDtalk
• 1996Stone Bridge — President
• 1994Mlýny — Writer
• 1992Zítra to spustíme — Theatre Play
• 1991Bill Moyers: Beyond Hate
• 1991Motýl na anténě — Theatre Play
• 1991November's Children: Revolution in Prague
• 1991Redevelopment — Writer
• 1991The Beggar's Opera — Screenplay, Theatre Play
• 1991Why Havel? — Václav Havel
• 1990Audience — Theatre Play
• 1990Largo Desolato — Theatre Play
• 1990Vernisáž — Theatre Play
• 1989Why Are You So Sad? — Writer
• 1987Pétition — Writer
• 1981Audiens — Theatre Play
• 1981Protest — Writer
• 1981The Stock-Check
• 1978Sorry... — Writer
• Play for Today — Writer
• 1966Every Young Man — trpěliví
• 1966Mlha — Dramaturgy
• Theatre 625 — Theatre Play

Appearances as themselves (33)

• 2024Havel Speaking, Can You Hear Me? — Self (archive footage)
• 2024Zánik Československa v parlamentu — Self
• 2023Ján Langoš – strážca pamäti — Self (archive footage)
• 2022Elizabeth II: Three days in the Czech Republic — Self (archive footage)
• 2020Zappa — Self - President of Czechoslovakia (archive footage)
• 2019Forman vs. Forman — Self - Friend (archive footage)
• 2018Rolling Stones – Hearts for Prague — Self
• 2016Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words — Self (archive footage)
• 2016Jak odchází prezident... — Self (archive footage)
• 2014Olga — Self
• 2014Václav Havel - Living in Freedom — Himself (archive footage)
• 2012The Presence of Arnošt Lustig — Self
• 2012Věra 68 — Himself
• 2011Divadlo Svoboda — Self
• 2011I am Fishead — himself
• 2009Citizen Havel Rolls Another Barrel — Self
• 2008Citizen Havel — Self
• 2008Wisdom — Self
• 2007Hammer & Tickle — Self (archive footage)
• 2003The Power of Good: Nicholas Winton — Self
• 2001The Plastic People of the Universe — Self
• 1998Lou Reed: Rock and Roll Heart — Self
• 1996A znovu Žebrácká opera — Self
• 1996What Is to Be Done? A Journey from Prague to Ceský Krumlov, or How I Formed a New Government — Self
• 1995Drawn from Memory — Self (voice)
• Goldene Henne — Self
• 1993Curious: The Velvet Underground in Europe — Self
• 1993Vaclav Havel, ein böhmisches Märchen — Self
• 1992New Hyperion or Liberty, Equality, Brotherhood — Self
• 1990TGM the Liberator — Self
• American Playhouse — Self (voice)
• 1968Czechoslovakia: Portrait of a Tragedy — Self
• 1966An Occasion to Speak — Self