“…In addition to the news footage, the film features never-before-viewed scenes taken prior to the invasion that crushed Prague's anti-Communist movement.…”

“…The Prague dissident scraped by as an unskilled labourer in a waterworks. …”

“…Among the truly unique events captured on film is Bill Clinton's State visit to the Czech Republic in January 1994, including the private part of the visit in the Reduta jazz club in Prague. Other events are the death of Havel's wife Olga and her funeral in January 1996, the celebration of his 60th birthday in the Archa Theatre, Prague, in October 1996, the forming of the new governments after the elections of 1996, 1998, and 2002, and the preparations for, and course of, the historic 2002 NATO Summit in Prague. …”

“…Czechoslovak and Russian diplomats, party leaders, military officers and journalists recount their memories of the "Prague Spring" of 1968.…”

“…The wonderfully grotesque Prague sets and the alchemical atmosphere remain potent.…”

“…In the summer of 1967 the body of Charles Jordan, a man who wanted to change the very core of the conflict in the Middle East, was fished out of the Vltava river in Prague. His death remains a mystery to this day. The filmmakers discovered new details about the case, while the Czech detectives are still unsuccessfully investigating it.…”

“…A working-class young woman (Andula) in a hick Czech town sleeps with one of the members of a band from Prague. "You are a Mondrian, not a Picasso," he tells her. …”

“…Images of revolutions in Berlin (1953), Budapest (1956) and Prague (1968) are used. Former RFE/RL directors, editors, journalists and political advisors are interviewed. …”

“…Verzio FF Submission Narrated by Jeremy Irons, “The Power of the Powerless” explores Czechoslovakia’s complex history of struggle against controlling totalitarian regimes – from the iron-fisted Stalinist government, through the vibrant and politically active Prague Spring of the 1960s, and into the hard-line backlash of the 1970s. …”

“…They reflect on important, painful and contradictory historical events such as the uprising on the 17th of June 1953, the rise and fall of the Berlin Wall and the suppression of the Prague Spring in 1968. They also convey the sense of the hopes pinned on Mikhail Gorbachev's Perestroika. …”

“…But the seduction of drugs is stronger: we next meet Katka on the streets of Prague, where she is experiencing a love affair with heroin together with her boyfriend Láďa. …”

“…Director Srđan Karanović, a member of the so-called Prague school, returned once again to the characters he created for his legendary TV series and brought their lives up-to-date in this sequel which happens 15 years after the end of the final episode. …”

“…Directed by one of the members of the so-called Prague school of Yugoslav film directors, this urban drama with lots of sad humor is situated in Belgrade of the late 1970s. …”

“…Soros Documentary Fund A documentary about two men in their seventies with a bond between them – both Holocaust survivors and Czech/American émigrés, who left Prague as dissidents under the Communist regime. Jan Wiener, 77, is the fighter of the title, a fit, trim university literature professor abroad and wilderness guide at home, in Lenox, Massachusetts. …”