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Director
Pavel Štingl
Original idea
Pavel Štingl
Producer
Anna Becková ...
Production company
K2 ...
Director of photography
Míra Janek
Editor
Tonička Janková
IDF Events
2006 Panel and Catalogue of Upcoming Czech Documentary Films
Financial Support
State Fund for the Support and Development of Czech Cinematography Support

Suchá Hora

Suchá Hora, dědina na konci trati , Czech Republic, 2008, 57 min, Creative, IDF Video Library

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A stylized documentary film tracking the changes in the remotest Slovak village at the very edge of the Orava Region at the Slovak-Polish border. The film's subject can be traced through nearly all of Eastern Europe. It could be referred to as "images from the fringes of an integrated continent". The film is a follow-up to a 20-year-old documentary film about a mountain village which, in the course of a single generation, underwent changes that took generations in most regions of former Czechoslovakia. The local ethnic community is very distinct - sometimes even considered to be a separate nationality of the so-called Goral people - and has strong ties not only to Slovakia but also to Poland and the Czech Republic. To a large extent, the gradual decline of specific folklore points to the loss of identity, which is also the main message of this forthcoming documentary film.

Director:

Pavel Štingl

Original idea:

Pavel Štingl

Screenplay:

Pavel Štingl

Producer:

Anna Becková, Pavel Štingl

Executive producer:

Ondřej Zima, Jana Vokrouhlíková, Vojtěch Pelák, Vlasta Malíková

Dramaturgy:

Hana Jemelíková, Darja Macáková