MENU
Film Screenings

Summer of Love | Friday Documentary

15.06.2012
American Center, Tržiště 13, Praha 1
Fee: Free

About the Event

This American Experience documentary offers a complex portrait of the notorious event that many consider the peak of the 1960s counter-culture movement. In the summer of 1967, thousands of young people from across the country flocked to San Francisco’s Haight Ashbury district to join in the hippie experience, only to discover that what they had come for was already disappearing. By 1968 the celebration of free love, music, and an alternative lifestyle had descended into a maelstrom of drug abuse, broken dreams, and occasional violence.

Through interviews with a broad range of individuals who lived through the Summer of Love — police officers walking the beat, teenage runaways who left home without looking back, non-hippie residents who resented the invasion of their community, and scholars who still have difficulty interpreting the phenomenon.

Screening in English, 60 minutes.


Registration Form


Upcoming Events