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Southern Premiere Director Sulik charmingly weaves together tragicomic moments in the lives of a handful of Eastern European villagers from 1920 to 1970, such as Dr. Roth, who saves a child's life by blowing cigar smoke into his lungs and other eccentric characters. In moving from peace to war to armistice and the Soviet invasion, these seemingly insignificant people create a song of praise for the human spirit that is both a fable and a history lesson. Slovakian history seen through the prism of the typically black, absurd Central European humor. "[I wanted to make a film about] a country that never existed, because nobody remembers and nobody talks about it. This is the forgotten story of this country, a story from which we may learn something. Only then, perhaps, will this country appear on the map." Martin Sulkin.
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(KRAJINKA)