Burning bush
Burning bush videorecording
Centre for Science and Environment
- New Delhi Centre for Science and Environment 2014
- 1 videodisc (24 Min.)
Burning Bush is a 2013 three-part miniseries created for HBO by Polish director Agnieszka Holland. Based on real characters and events, this haunting drama focuses on the personal sacrifice of a Prague history student, Jan Palach, who set himself on fire in 1969 in protest against the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia in the previous year. Dagmar a young female lawyer, became part of his legacy by defending Palach's family in a trial against the communist government, a regime which tried to dishonor Palach’s sacrifice, a heroic action for the freedom of Czechoslovakia.
The fight for freedom, for moral principles, self-sacrifice and protest in those desperate times led to the moral unification of a repressed nation, which twenty years later defeated the totalitarian regime. The anniversary of Jan Palach’s death inspired a new generation of students to start protests that led to the eventual fall of communism in Czechoslovakia, part of the eventual destruction of the Iron Curtain.
English
Haunting drama, personal sacrifice of a Prague history student, female lawyer, courtroom drama, Trial, communist government.
811.5 / BU-
Burning Bush is a 2013 three-part miniseries created for HBO by Polish director Agnieszka Holland. Based on real characters and events, this haunting drama focuses on the personal sacrifice of a Prague history student, Jan Palach, who set himself on fire in 1969 in protest against the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia in the previous year. Dagmar a young female lawyer, became part of his legacy by defending Palach's family in a trial against the communist government, a regime which tried to dishonor Palach’s sacrifice, a heroic action for the freedom of Czechoslovakia.
The fight for freedom, for moral principles, self-sacrifice and protest in those desperate times led to the moral unification of a repressed nation, which twenty years later defeated the totalitarian regime. The anniversary of Jan Palach’s death inspired a new generation of students to start protests that led to the eventual fall of communism in Czechoslovakia, part of the eventual destruction of the Iron Curtain.
English
Haunting drama, personal sacrifice of a Prague history student, female lawyer, courtroom drama, Trial, communist government.
811.5 / BU-