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Release Date:
August 16, 2018
Original Title:
Můj neznámý vojín
Alternate Titles:
Čehoslovākijas nepateiktais stāsts
Genres:
Documentary
Production Companies:
Analog Vision
Baltic Pine Films
FAMU
RTVS
Wandal Production
Česká televize
Production Countries:
Czech Republic | Latvia | Slovakia
Ratings / Certifications:
SK: 15
Runtime: 79
How does it feel like to become an occupier without your own intentions? With known but also never published archival materials from the whole Europe and Russia we tell a family story of the director Anna Kryvenko about how the big politics is destroying the lives of ordinary people. Just couple of years ago the director found a family secret of her grand-uncle who came to occupy Czechoslovakia in 1968 as a Soviet soldier. When searching for grand-uncle's story the author touches themes like fragmentation of personal and national memory, inherited guilt, interpretation of history, media manipulation, relationship towards nowadays Russia, but also relationship of Czechs and Slovaks towards foreigners - themes very actual in our times.
Camera Operator:
Radka Šišuláková
Director:
Anna Kryvenko
Editor:
Darya Chernyak
Music:
Andris Dzentis
Screenplay:
Anna Kryvenko
Set Designer:
Jurģis Krāsons
Sound:
Viktor Krivosudský
Story:
Anna Kryvenko
Writer:
Anna Kryvenko
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