How I Became a Partisan

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Director:Vera Lacková
Premiere:11. November 2021
Length:90 minutes
Genre:Document

How I Became a Partisan

Ako som sa stala partizánkou; Vera Lacková, 2021, versions: OR,SS,ES, languages: slk, deu

Director: Vera Lacková • Scenario: Vera Lacková • Music: Ján Šikl ml.

A documentary about the Roma resistance fighters of WWII who fought and died for our freedom – then fell into complete oblivion and died for a second time. The director of the film has personal links to its subject matter. She learnt from her grandmother the story of her great-grandfather, who was a Roma partisan. His family of six – two babies, two older daughters, his wife and mother – were murdered during the war for his resistance activities. He himself had been interned in a concentration camp and only found out about their deaths when he returned home. After the war, he remarried to a woman who had experienced a similar fate – the Germans had murdered her husband. The director’s great-grandfather went on to have three daughters with his new wife, and the youngest of them was the director’s grandmother.

Length: 90 min

Year: 2021
Local premiere date: 11. November 2021

Country of origin:

  • Czech Republic
  • Slovakia

Language version:

OR - Original version (slovak, german)
SS - Slovak subtitles
ES - English subtitles

Director: Vera Lacková • Scenario: Vera Lacková • Music: Ján Šikl ml.

A documentary about the Roma resistance fighters of WWII who fought and died for our freedom – then fell into complete oblivion and died for a second time. The director of the film has personal links to its subject matter. She learnt from her grandmother the story of her great-grandfather, who was a Roma partisan. His family of six – two babies, two older daughters, his wife and mother – were murdered during the war for his resistance activities. He himself had been interned in a concentration camp and only found out about their deaths when he returned home. After the war, he remarried to a woman who had experienced a similar fate – the Germans had murdered her husband. The director’s great-grandfather went on to have three daughters with his new wife, and the youngest of them was the director’s grandmother.

Year: 2021
Local premiere date: 11. November 2021

Country of origin:

  • Czech Republic
  • Slovakia

Language version:

OR - Original version (slovak, german)
SS - Slovak subtitles
ES - English subtitles