Böhmische Dörfer

Summary

The
documentary film divests German-Czech relations of their mutual lack of
understanding, but also of the sediments of this disillusionment. The
conversations of contemporary witnesses take place in various locations, above
all in border communities where Germans used to live. A key sequence of the
film reminds us of the director Samuel Fuller, who as a young GI was involved
in the liberation of Falkenau and documented the horrors in the concentration
camp there. Another sequence gives insights into the community Roßbach/Hranice
in the Ascher region where during the totalitarian Czechoslovakian regime the
closely-guarded Iron Curtain was. The mosaic of history is framed with
picturesque landscapes and owes its unique character to the memoirs of the
Prague-based writer Lenka Reinerová.

Source: 47.
Hofer Filmtage 2013