VELVET TERRORISTS

ZAMATOVÍ TERORISTI

By Ivan OSTROCHOVSKY, Peter KEREKES, Pavol PEKARCIK

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Documentary - Completed 2013


Festivals
& Awards

Karlovy Vary 2013
FEDEORA Award
Berlinale - Berlin IFF 2014
Forum
Berlinale 2014
TAGESSPIEGEL Readers' Prize
Sofia IFF 2014
Vilnius IFF 2014
Hot Docs Toronto 2014
Melbourne IFF 2014
Hamptons IFF 2014
Special Mention
    • Year of production
    • 2013
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • SLOVAKIA, CZECH REPUBLIC, CROATIA
    • Languages
    • CZECH, SLOVAKIAN
    • Duration
    • 87 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Ivan OSTROCHOVSKY, Peter KEREKES, Pavol PEKARCIK
    • Writer(s)
    • Ivan OSTROCHOVSKY, Pavol PEKARCIK, Peter KEREKES
    • Producer(s)
    • Ivan OSTROCHOVSKY, Pavol PEKARCIK, Peter KEREKES, Sinisa JURIČIĆ (Nukleus film), Filip REMUNDA (Hypermarket Film), Vít KLUSÁK (Hypermarket Film)
    • Synopsis
    • Three romantic heroes, who had a go at armed resistance against the communistic power in Czechoslovakia. All of them were sentenced according to the paragraph 93 - terror, neither of them, however, had killed nor injured anybody.
      A night before May Day Celebrations, Stano had wanted to blow up a tribune, on which communistic fat cats were to sit. But he´d got drunk and the policemen found him staggering around the tribune with a bag full of explosives. He spent 5 years in prison.
      Fero had wanted to assassinate president Gustáv Husák. But he didn’t manage to contact the CIA (they didn’t take his calls seriously). The police discovered his weapon and explosives hideaway and he was sentenced for 14 years.
      Vladimír used to blow up bulletin boards of the Communistic Party. 53 altogether. He spent more than 4 years in prison.
      But even terrorists have their private lives, their loves, their families.
      And that is what this film is about.