Footprints in the Snow
- Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
- When: October 4, 2018, 10:00 – 12:00
Banned literature was smuggled into Communist Czechoslovakia in various ways. One of the toughest physically was carrying dozens of kilogrammes of books from Poland over passes in the Tatra Mountains. It was chiefly religious literature that, with the help of strong young volunteers, reached Slovakia in that way. What happened when a smuggler was caught and arrested? And what was the reaction of Polish border guards, in whose country the circulation of religious literature was most commonplace?
Following a screening of the film Footsteps in the Snow (2105, 53 min., Slovak with English titles) there will be a discussion with the film’s director, Slavomír Zrebný, and Eduard Burget, a cultural historian at the Institute for Czech Literature.
The film will be screened as part of the COURAGE-PAREVO international festival of documentary films, which is one of the high points of the three-year international research project COURAGE: Cultural opposition – understanding the cultural legacy of dissent in the countries of the former socialist bloc.
For more go to www.cultural-opposition.eu