Michal Hýbek

Michal Hýbek (1957-2003), participated as a university student in documenting the life of alternative culture. In 1982 he was sentenced and imprisoned for his cooperation with the samizdat magazine Vokno. In prison he met Václav Havel, with whom he later made short film Letters to Olga (1986). This movie was used to introduce Havel to the world when he became the laureate of the Erasmus Prize. In 1988 Hýbek shot an adaptation of Václav Havel's one-act play Unveiling - but he didn't finish its editing. He also participated in the activities of the samizdat film group Čeněk and helped to establish another samizdat videogroup Original Videojournal. After the Velvet Revolution, he worked mostly as a cameraman for the Czech Television.

Literature

• Jan Bernard, "Havel a Hýbek. Dva vězni, dva přátelé, dva filmy", Iluminace 31:3, 2019, pp 5-21. (Czech)