Mečiar: The Lust For Power

Story

Synopsis

The film Mečiar is the confession of the young director Tereza Nvotová about Vladimír Mečiar and the influence that this politician had on Slovak society, but also on the life of Tereza herself. When the totalitarian communist regime fell in Czechoslovakia in 1989, Tereza was one year old. The leaders of the Gentle Revolution then decided to hold an audition for the Minister of the Interior, to which Vladimír Mečiar, an unknown business lawyer from the Slovak countryside at the time, applied. After success in bankruptcy, Vladimír Mečiar reaches the political top, from where he rules the country with a series of questionable practices. Against the background of events such as the division of Czechoslovakia or the kidnapping of the son of the president of the Slovak Republic, Tereza and her peers relive their childhood.

Director

Tereza Nvotová

Writers

Josef Krajbich, Tereza Nvotová

Language

Slovak

Country

Czech Republic, Slovakia

Release date

12 October 2017

Ensemble

Cast

• Vladimír Mečiar

  Self

• 

  Tereza Nvotová

  Self

• Milan Žitný

• Fedor Flašík

• Fedor Gál

• Ladislav Snopko

• 

  Petr Pithart

• Tom E. Nicholson

• Martin M. Šimečka

• Eugen Korda

• 

  Anna Šišková

• 

  Juraj Nvota