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_aCentre for Science and Environment _94632 |
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_aBurning bush _cCentre for Science and Environment _hvideorecording |
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_aNew Delhi _bCentre for Science and Environment _c2014 |
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505 | _aBurning 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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_aHaunting drama, personal sacrifice of a Prague history student, female lawyer, courtroom drama, Trial, communist government. _9114266 |
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