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A Hole in the Head
Diera v hlave

Director(s): Robert KirchhoffSK, CZ90 min.2016
80%(4 ratings)
Categoriesdocumentary
LanguagesCzech, Slovak, German, French, Croatian, Polish, Serbian (orig.)
SubtitlesSlovak, english
Black and white / colourcolor

Robert Kirchhoff’s documentary explores an area of memory that testifies to and reinterprets historical facts surroundings a taboo subject – the WWII Romany holocaust. This collection of testimonies speaks of mass purges and atrocities the fascists and their henchmen perpetrated upon ethnic Romany across Europe. An old French Romany man and a German Romany woman, both bearing holes in their heads as evidence of their ordeals, tell schoolchildren about the perverse medical experiments conducted by fascist doctors. One Czech Romany points to a swastika imprinted on his head. Similar testimonies are heard from the voices of eyewitnesses and surviving family members at sites of concealed mass graves with the bodies of executed Romany in Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and former Yugoslavia. Kirchhoff’s essayistic pursuit of his subject is also a telling reflection of Romanies’ highly unusual relationship with memory and history.

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Projection of A Hole in the Head at IFF ART FILM 2017
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