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Is Vaclav Havel Dead? Although Havel may have passed, his famous political essay, “The Power of the Powerles,” depicted in this film, will live on forever. The appeal of “The Power of the Powerless” is as universal as democracy and has immortalized the name Vaclav Havel in infamy. His essay didn’t just talk about marches or demonstrations. Instead, he asked the citizens of totalitarian countries to “live in truth”: that is, to go about their daily lives as if the regime did not exist, to the extent that was possible in societies where the state ran all businesses and all schools, owned a majority of the property and banned free speech and free press. By the late 1980s, “living in truth” was widely practiced across central Europe. The Power of the Powerless, Havel's crowning achievement had evolved into the majority of European citizens ignoring unfair invasive laws which eventually became unenforceable. Democracy, free speech, and freedom of choice are all depicted in The Power of the Powerless a film about the Velvet Revolution and Vaclav Havel.