Mečiar: The Lust For Power

Mečiar: The Lust For Power 2017 Directed by Tereza Nvotová Mečiar

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.

Country Slovakia

Production Countries Czech Republic , Slovakia

Language Slovak

Spoken Languages Czech , English , Slovak

Gnere Documentary

Production Companies Negativ , HBO Europe , PubRes

Release Date 12 October 2017

91 mins