The Grasp of the State
Director Zuzana Piussi started making her film out of despair. She had her eyes wide open and kept recording events such as politicians and their pre-election campaigns and their voters, the anti-Gorilla rallies and the…
The Border
During the night of August 30, 1946, the village of Slemence on the eastern European border, was divided by the Red Army into two parts. One part, Veľké Slemence, remained in Slovakia [former Czechoslovakia]; the other…
Here We Are
After WW2, the Krnáč family moved from Central Slovakia to Sub-Carpathian Russia. Later, under the Khrushchev decrees, it was forcibly transferred to a village in the middle of the Kazakhstan steps. Following the…