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Mečiar: The Lust For Power

Mečiar: The Lust For Power

2017•1h 31m•5.3/10
Documentary

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5.3/10(3)

The film Mečiar is the confession of the young director Tereza Nvotová about Vladimír Mečiar and the influence that this politician had on Slovak society, but also on the life of Tereza herself. When the totalitarian communist regime fell in Czechoslovakia in 1989, Tereza was one year old. The leaders of the Gentle Revolution then decided to hold an audition for the Minister of the Interior, to which Vladimír Mečiar, an unknown business lawyer from the Slovak countryside at the time, applied. After success in bankruptcy, Vladimír Mečiar reaches the political top, from where he rules the country with a series of questionable practices. Against the background of events such as the division of Czechoslovakia or the kidnapping of the son of the president of the Slovak Republic, Tereza and her peers relive their childhood.

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Production

PubRes, Negativ, HBO Europe

Language

SK

Status

Released

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Cast

Vladimír Mečiar

Self

Tereza Nvotová

Tereza Nvotová

Self

Milan Žitný

Fedor Flašík

Fedor Gál

Ladislav Snopko

Petr Pithart

Petr Pithart

Tom E. Nicholson

Martin M. Šimečka

Eugen Korda

Anna Šišková

Anna Šišková

Juraj Nvota

Juraj Nvota

Dorota Nvotová

Dorota Nvotová

Gérard Depardieu

Gérard Depardieu

Claudia Schiffer

Claudia Schiffer

Milan Kňažko

Milan Kňažko

Václav Havel

Václav Havel

Václav Klaus

Pavel Dumbrovský

Daniel Krauser

Daniel Krauser

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