With USA credits like TREME & THE WIRE, it was logical for HBO Europe to turn to Oscar-nominated Polish director Agnieszka Holland to create this tense mini-series about the Soviet crackdown on Czechoslovakia in 1968. Now being released in the USA as a feature film, Burning Bush focuses on the complex consequences after a student burns himself to death as an act of protest. (JLH: 4/5)
Highly recommended by me. Click HERE for our FF2 Haiku. NOT YET SEEN BY RICH.
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Bottom Photo: Tatiana Pauhofová as “Dagmar Burešová.”
Photo Credit: Dusan Martincek/Courtesy of Kino Lorber, Inc.
Q: Does Burning Bush pass the Bechdel Test? 
Yes!
The main character, “Dagmar Burešová,” is based on a real woman who represented the family of Jan Palach in a libel suit after he killed himself.
In her professional role, Burešová interacts with Jan Palach’s mother, a key [female] witness for the defense, and the [female] judge.
At home, however, Burešová is also the mother of two young daughters!
