Václav Havel was arrested on January 14 and released on May 20, 1977. In those four months, something perhaps fundamentally significant happens in his life: a meeting with power and the feeling that he will achieve something through dialogue with it, that he will score some points. He scores nothing, even writing a well-known letter to the prosecutor and renouncing the role of spokesman for Charter 77, which causes him a terrible crisis, guilty feelings, and even thoughts of suicide. "Václav Havel was arrested on January 14 and released on May 20, 1977. In those four months, something perhaps fundamentally significant happens in his life: a meeting with power and the feeling that he will achieve something through dialogue with it, that he will score some points. He scores nothing, even writing a well-known letter to the prosecutor and renouncing the role of spokesman for Charter 77, which causes him a terrible crisis, guilty feelings, and even thoughts of suicide," Jiří Havelka recalls the moment that Havel called a failure or entanglement and considered it one of the biggest mistakes of his life. (translated)