Vaclav Havel – Leaving
R.I.P Vaclav Havel – a leader of the Velvet Revolution and the first democratically elected President of the Czech Republic… He wrote plays, Letters to Olga and many theater works..
Vaclav Havel 1936-2011
(Vaclav Havel was his friend, Milos Forman)
Václav Havel in front of his favorite painting, Master Theodoric’s portrait of St. Matthew, at Prague’s National Gallery in 1992. Pavel Štecha
December 29, 1989: Havel became the President of Czech Republic
Shy and bookish, with wispy mustache and unkempt hair, Havel came to symbolize the power of the people to peacefully overcome totalitarian rule.”
A film directed by Vaclav Havel “Leaving”(via)
Based on his own play, Leaving is “about — what else? — a politician trying to adjust to a new life after leaving politics.” It “tells the story of Vilém Rieger, the former chancellor of an unnamed country, locked in a battle of wills with his successor, the unsavory Vlastík Klein. It’s a King Lear-like contemplation on a politician’s frustrating impotence at finding himself slowly being forced out of his beloved government villa, with several of Havel’s favorite actors among the cast. They include his wife Dagmar [Havlová], who plays the chancellor’s wife, Irena.”
Always the Optimist
Václav Havel’s transcendence of politics. By Stefany Anne Golberg
On the day of Havel’s death, Czech novelist Milan Kundera said, “Václav Havel’s most important work is his own life.” There’s a moral there somewhere, one that Havel would have appreciated very much indeed.
The Power and the Powerless – Obit from Artinfo
Havel was still the President when I took this photograph of the
toilet paper 
in the Prague Castle
This photo was presented as The Articles of Faith here.