CZ

2009

57 min

Finished

Jan Palach's Message

Poselství Jana Palacha

Directing: Kristina Vlachová

Synopsis

Documentary marking the 40th Anniversary of self-burning act of the Czech student
Jan Palach. On the 16th of January 2009 it will be 40 years from the self-burning
of Jan Palach. He has committed this act in protest against the progressing lethargy
and pusillanimity of the Czechoslovak nation following the occupation of
Czechoslovakia in the 1968.