Mečiar: The Lust For Power (2017)
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.
Director:
Tereza Nvotová
Writers:
Tereza Nvotová, Josef Krajbich.
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Vladimír Mečiar as Self |
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Tereza Nvotová as Self |
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Milan Žitný as |
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Fedor Flašík as |
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Fedor Gál as |
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Ladislav Snopko as |
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Petr Pithart as |
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Tom E. Nicholson as |
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Martin M. Šimečka as |
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Eugen Korda as |
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Anna Šišková as |
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Juraj Nvota as |
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Dorota Nvotová as |
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Gérard Depardieu as |
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Claudia Schiffer as |
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Milan Kňažko as |
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Václav Havel as |
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Václav Klaus as |
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Pavel Dumbrovský as |
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Daniel Krauser as |
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Robert Fico as |
| Directing | Tereza Nvotová | Director |
| Editing | Josef Krajbich | Editor |
| Writing | Tereza Nvotová | Screenplay |
| Camera | Martin Žiaran | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Josef Krajbich | Screenplay |
| Sound | Pjoni | Music |
| Sound | Igor Baar | Sound |
| Sound | Radim Hladík Jr. | Sound Supervisor |
| Production | Zuzana Mistríková | Producer |
| Production | Ľubica Orechovská | Producer |
| Production | Tereza Polachová | Producer |
| Production | Kateřina Černá | Producer |
| Production | Pavel Strnad | Producer |