MY UNKNOWN SOLDIER
Czech Republic, Latvia, Slovakia / 2018 / 79'
MY UNKNOWN SOLDIER
How does it feel to become an occupier without your intention? Through known as well as never published archival materials from the whole of Europe and Russia we see a family story of the director about how high politics destroys the lives of ordinary people. A couple of years ago, she discovered a family secret about her grand-uncle who came to occupy Czechoslovakia in 1968 as a Soviet soldier. Searching for her great-uncle’s story, the author touches upon themes like fragmentation of personal and national memory, inherited guilt, interpretation of history, media manipulation, today’s relationship with Russia, and the attitudes of Czechs and Slovaks towards foreigners – all very current topics.
Director: Anna Kryvenko
Script: Anna Kryvenko
Photography: Radka Šišuláková
Editing: Daria Chernyak
Sound: Viktor Krivosudský
Music: Andris Dzenitis, Yair Elazar Glotman, David Střeleček
Production: Michal Kráčmer
Co-production: Sergei Serpuhov, Wanda Adamík Hrycová
DFF CRONOGRAF – Special Jury Prize, Moldova (2019), Prize of Andrej Stankovič, Czech Republic (2019), ZagrebDOX, Croatia (2019), Verzió IDFF, Hungary (2019), Astra IDFF, Romania (2019)
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