Director: Matěj Hrudička, Jan Gogola ml.
Editor: Tereza Chovancová
Original title: Vězení dějin
Synopsis
Set history free. A modern history, enclosed for more than a quarter of a century in an abandoned prison in Uherské Hradiště with unique rooms preserved from the 1950s. The authors fill the emptiness of the premises with situational encounters with the building, nature and people who are united by their experience of the place and who are often divided by their life experience. A shared past as a starting point to a shared future.
"I used to go to the Hradiště prison as a boy in a playgroup, without any idea, while playing in the former prison yard, of what happened there two decades ago. I perceive the emptiness of the grounds here, closed since the 1990s, as a manifestation of the historical void within us. I then see the prison of history as an opportunity to open up the site and ourselves, to meet each other as the living and the dead, despite the fact that we come from different generational, ideological and social worlds." – Jan Gogola Jr.
Country: Czech Republic
Year: 2023
Running time: 94 min.
Language: Czech
Subtitles: English
Colour: Colour
Also available: TV version, 52 min. (Česká televize)
Screenings / Awards
27th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival Premiere type: World Premiere Festival edition: 2023 Section: Ji.hlava Online, Czech Joy
Ji.hlava East Silver Market Festival edition: 2023
Jeden svět – Human Rights Documentary Film Festival Festival edition: 2024
AFO – Academia Film Olomouc Festival edition: 2024
Zlín Film Festival Festival edition: 2024