Iluminace 2019, 31(3):5-21 | DOI: 10.58193/ilu.1630

Havel and Hýbek. Two Prisoners, Two Friends and Two Films

Jan Bernard
Akademie múzických umění

Michal Hýbek (1957-2003), participated as a university student in documenting the life of alternative culture. In 1982 he was sentenced and imprisoned for his cooperation with the samizdat magazine Vokno. In prison he met Václav Havel, with whom he later made short film Letters to Olga (1986). This movie was used to introduce Havel to the world when he became the laureate of the Erasmus Prize. In 1988 Hýbek shot an adaptation of Václav Havel's one-act play Unveiling - but he didn't finish its editing. He also participated in the activities of the samizdat film group Čeněk and helped to establish another samizdat videogroup Original Videojournal. After the Velvet Revolution, he worked mostly as a cameraman for the Czech Television. This study deals with the history and analysis of Hýbek's two samizdat films based on the works of Václav Havel. It explores the material found in Hýbek's private film archive and the memories of his colleagues and friends.

Keywords: Hýbek Michal, Havel Václav, amateur film, dissent, film samizdat, adaptation

Published: September 1, 2019  Show citation

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Bernard, J. (2019). Havel and Hýbek. Two Prisoners, Two Friends and Two Films. Iluminace, 31(3), 5-21. doi: 10.58193/ilu.1630
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