CREECA Czech Film Series

In 2008, Havel returned to the theater with a new play, "Leaving," in which an ex-government official tries to reenter his former life. As the action unfolds on a rural estate, comparisons to Havel’s own life become clear: “Before the 1989 Revolution, I had an idea for a character like King Lear, who loses power. It might have been the influence of the 1968 generation—the people who had been party members."