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Children of Stalinism

One Life

Mon, Mar 22, 2010
One day in the ordinary life of an (extra) ordinary woman. Lida Voriskova was five years old when her father died in a communist prison in 1950s. Lida is always on the way...to the library, to the local graveyard, to the school, to her cousins' place outside Prague...
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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?
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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.
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Journey to My Father
Eva is getting on the train. On her way across Czech Republic, from Ostrava to Jachymov (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...
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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...
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Justice Lies in God's Hands
Marketa 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 Cermin life...
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