Meciar

Oct 12 2017 N/A 1h 30m
Documentary

The film Meciar is the confession of the young director Tereza Nvotová about Vladimír Meciar 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 Meciar, an unknown business lawyer from the Slovak countryside at the time, applied. After success in bankruptcy, Vladimír Meciar 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.

Plot

A story of political corruption, kidnapping and organized crime, an HBO Europe documentary The Lust for Power chronicles the incredible rise of Vladimir Meciar, Slovakia's first prime minister following its return to democracy aft...

Written by

Josef Krajbich, Tereza Nvotová

Directed by

Tereza Nvotová

Cast

Vladimír Meciar, Fedor Gál, Petr Pithart

Crew

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Production Countries

Czech Republic, Slovakia

Production Companies

PubRes, Negativ, HBO Europe

Languages

Slovencina, Ceský

Awards

2 nominations

Scores
# of Votes
288
Average Rating
7.3 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
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