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18:00 | Special Event
"Free To Rock": documentary film screening at the American Center
"Free to rock" is a 60 minute documentary film directed by 4 time Emmy winning filmmaker Jim Brown and narrated by Kiefer Sutherland.
Sponsored by the CERGE-EI Foundation and co-organized by CERGE-EI, the official screening of the movie takes place at the American Center (Tržiště 13, Praha 1 – Malá Strana ) on Wednesday 7 June, 2017, 18:00 - 20:00.
Ten years in the making, the film explores the soft power of Rock & Roll to affect social change behind the Iron Curtain between the years 1955 and 1991, and how it contributed to the collapse of the Soviet Union and to ending the Cold War.
Free To Rock includes rare footage of superstars from the Soviet bloc rock underground including Czechoslovakia’s Plastic People of the Universe, Boris Grebenshikov, The Flowers, Leningrad post-punkers Kino and also of Dean Reed, a/k/a “The Red Elvis.”
The film screening will include Q&A with film producers Douglas Yeager and Nick Binkley, and with Vratislav Brabenec, a member of the Czech underground music band Plastic People of the Universe.
The program will be in English. To attend, please register.
