Mečiar: The Lust For Power
2017•15+•1h 31m•5.3•Released
Documentary
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
Writer
Tereza Nvotová, Josef Krajbich
Languages
English, Czech, Slovak
Studio
PubRes
Cast
Vladimír Mečiar
Self
Tereza Nvotová
Self
Milan Žitný
Fedor Flašík
Fedor Gál
Ladislav Snopko
Petr Pithart
Tom E. Nicholson
Martin M. Šimečka
Eugen Korda
Anna Šišková
Juraj Nvota
Dorota Nvotová
Gérard Depardieu
Claudia Schiffer
Production
Company
PubRes
Company
Negativ
Company
HBO Europe
Producer
Zuzana Mistríková
Producer
Ľubica Orechovská
Producer
Tereza Polachová
Producer
Kateřina Černá
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