Synopsis
CHILDREN OF STALINISM series. 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.
A stylized reconstruction of a half-century-old cycling tour of the main protagonist Mrs. Věra Pavlovcová. A bizarre portrait of an aging woman, a daughter of political prisoner, imprisoned and tortured by the former Czechoslovak communist regime in 1950’s, who sets out on journey to visit her father in Valdice prison. On the way through scrubby family garden with its glasshouse, through region at the foothill of Krkonoše Mountains with stops at the graveyard and athletic stadium, ghost of the past – including Klement Gottwald (the first Czechoslovak working-class president), his wife Marta and granddaughter Batul – are appearing. As a matter of form, it is an attempt to knot together a dialogue between contemporary digital pictures and archive film newsreels, still present in our memory …
A stylized reconstruction of a half-century-old cycling tour of the main protagonist Mrs. Věra Pavlovcová. A bizarre portrait of an aging woman, a daughter of political prisoner, imprisoned and tortured by the former Czechoslovak communist regime in 1950’s, who sets out on journey to visit her father in Valdice prison. On the way through scrubby family garden with its glasshouse, through region at the foothill of Krkonoše Mountains with stops at the graveyard and athletic stadium, ghost of the past – including Klement Gottwald (the first Czechoslovak working-class president), his wife Marta and granddaughter Batul – are appearing. As a matter of form, it is an attempt to knot together a dialogue between contemporary digital pictures and archive film newsreels, still present in our memory …
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