Reconstruction of Occupation

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Director:Jan Šikl
Premiere:23. September 2021
Length:100 minutes
Genre:Document

Reconstruction of Occupation

Rekonstrukce okupace; Jan Šikl, 2021, versions: OR,ES, languages: ces, slk

Týždeň slovenského filmu 2022.

Director: Jan Šikl

Jan Šikl has spent many years seeking out and collecting private film archives – faded footage of family lives, celluloid echoes of celebrations and everyday moments. It was in this way that Šikl eventually came across several hours of footage showing the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia. These unique images long remained unseen – until 2021, when historical memory awakened from its long slumber. Reconstruction of Occupation is a cinematic adventure of a truly archaeological nature in which anonymous faces are transformed into living witnesses of the events that sent Czechoslovakia into two more decades of bondage.

Length: 100 min

Year: 2021
Local premiere date: 23. September 2021

Country of origin:

  • Czech Republic
  • Slovakia

Language version:

OR - Original version (czech, slovak)
ES - English subtitles

Týždeň slovenského filmu 2022.

Director: Jan Šikl

Jan Šikl has spent many years seeking out and collecting private film archives – faded footage of family lives, celluloid echoes of celebrations and everyday moments. It was in this way that Šikl eventually came across several hours of footage showing the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia. These unique images long remained unseen – until 2021, when historical memory awakened from its long slumber. Reconstruction of Occupation is a cinematic adventure of a truly archaeological nature in which anonymous faces are transformed into living witnesses of the events that sent Czechoslovakia into two more decades of bondage.

Year: 2021
Local premiere date: 23. September 2021

Country of origin:

  • Czech Republic
  • Slovakia

Language version:

OR - Original version (czech, slovak)
ES - English subtitles