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Burning bush Centre for Science and Environment videorecording

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Centre for Science and Environment

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New Delhi Centre for Science and Environment 2014Description: 1 videodisc (24 Min.)Subject(s):

Haunting drama, personal sacrifice of a Prague history student, female lawyer, courtroom drama, Trial, communist government

DDC classification:

22 811.5 BU-

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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.

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Multimedia

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Item type	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Multimedia	OPJGU Sonepat- Campus	Special collection- CD/DVD (Multimedia)	Central Library	811.5 BU- (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		300563

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.

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