The Swiss Robinson
Jan Hlach doesn’t seem to differ much from his neighbours living in the outskirts of Fribourg in Switzerland. As well as the others, he mows the lawn, looks after the garden, says hello with a smile on the way to the shop…
Justice Lies in God’s Hands
Markéta is a judge and the daughter of known political prisoner who was sentenced in 1952 to six years for high treason in a show trial. The documentary depicts a strong relationship between the father and the
daughter during the last days of doctor’s Jakub Čermín life…
I Am not Afraid To Speak
Gita’s father was executed while her mum was given a life sentence and subsequently released aft er 7 years. Amidst the Easter in the small Slovak village, Gita, a tireless fi ghter for communist regime victims’ rights encounters the opinions of those from her village…
Journey to My Father
Eva is getting on the train. On her way across Czech Republic, from Ostrava to Jáchymov (where she used to go to see her father, a political prisoner sentenced to work for years with uranium), she refl ects on her relationship with her dad, her memories and the past era…
I Am in the Garden
A reconstruction of the cycling tour made by Mrs. Vera she used to make when visiting her father in jail. Ghosts of the past headed by K. Gottwald, first Czechoslovak working class President, appear…The film forms a dialogue between digital pictures and archive newsreels.
Dasha Is Coming Back
Dasha decided to visit her birthplace. She does not recognize anything and anyone there – she left when she was 2 years. Despite the passage of time, the memories of the elderly local inhabitants are still not wretched… What does Dasha´s birthplace have in store for her?
One Life
One day in the ordinary life of an (extra) ordinary woman. Lída Voříšková was fi ve years old when her father died in a communist prison in 1950s. Lída is always on the way…to the library, to the local graveyard, to the school, to her cousins’ place outside Prague…
For My Dad
Mirka’s father was imprisoned for 15 years because of his activities in the 1950s. What is the burden that a child, present at the arrest of his own father and labeled a traitor must bear? Valuable family archives enrich an originality of this documentary.