Tim Robbins to make film about Velvet Revolution

American actor Tim Robbins, star of movies such as “The Shawshank Redemption” and “The Player” has reached a deal to direct a movie to be called “Wenceslas Square” about the events of the 1989 revolution that led to the downfall of communism in Czechoslovakia. The movie, to be shot in Prague, will reportedly centre around a male CIA agent and a female agent of the communist secret police known as StB, who is tasked with attempting to undermine her American counterpart. The film is based on a 2007 short story of the same name by US author Arthur Phillips. Casting for the project is set to begin later this year, with filming taking place in the spring of 2013. This will be the first fictional movie to directly and centrally dramatise the events of November 1989.

Author: Dominik Jůn