Clips search result: The Plastic People of the Universe

Repression as an impulse to speak up and defend oneself

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… … dana … němcová … “the impulse not to keep quiet and to defend ourselves came … to me the initiating experience was rudolfov where young people who wanted to listen to music performance by … – because the public scene was closed for bands such as plastic people of the universe and dg 307 – we would get at …

The Dissidents

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… was a protestant priest. we lived in horní počernice where the police started to follow us. since 1975 there was a car … of our house now and then. because at that time plenty of people paid us a visit. protestants would gather there, as … comes to visit the hobbit was just the same as when the plastic people of the universe came to visit us. they would …

Václav Havel and Jiří Němec visited Ladislav Hejdánek before writing the Charter 77

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… , not too much and we weren't particularly fond of each other. vašek did not came alone, he brought jirka němec … and that the feedback for the relative success with the plastics [the plastic people of the universe, an underground music band whose …

How he experienced the revolution in 1989

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… … reindl … "i remember it very well, because at that time they had a concert by elan in české budějovice - when it was … around the towns and distributing leaflets and informing people who didn't know what had happened in prague - so … was a trained unit there to suppress these... there was a plastic people of the universe concert sometime in the …

House search 1989

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… … jan … rampich … “we entered my bedsit, there was my wife. the room was quite empty, everything was … noticed the police officers, he said he was bringing me the plastic people of the universe. but they were not interested any …

His first meeting with Martin Jirous

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… … heryán … “what happened was that when i lived here before the revolution, we were banned from keeping in touch with … lived in české budějovice for five years, i didn’t meet the people there... i taught at the faculty... when i came to … one friend of mine, and she said she’d introduce me to the plastics [plastic people of the universe - trans.]. the …

The Underground movement and contacts with Karel Havelka

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… … … ivo … hucl … “as far as the plastic people of the universe are concerned, we had contact via …

Underground was a source of knowledge that culture is something that is going on between me and people around me

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… … martin … fendrych … “it was the second culture for me and i considered it the … creation. it was what attracted me. for example, music of plastic people of the universe was highly original and enriching …

Video commentaries to the photodocumentation

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… … jiří … kostúr … “and this is from nová víska, from the kitchen. i’m reading the chronicle. that’s the chronicle … here’s his wife juliana. that was during some performance, plastic people [of the universe] i guess, when they released her …