Fierlinger concentrates his considerable talents as an animator to recount through fragmented memories, vivid recollections, and the occasional evocative photograph his life as the rebellious son of Jan Fierlinger, Czechoslovakian career politician.
Direction
Fierlinger animates his own father's political rise and his own rebellion.
Writing
Narration that admits memory lies, then lies beautifully anyway.
Production
Rare documentary featuring Václav Havel as himself, animated.
Director
Paul Fierlinger
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Fierlinger was among the first Eastern European animators to defect to the West, making this a rare insider-outsider perspective on Czechoslovak politics.
Miloš Forman's participation connects two generations of Czech émigré filmmakers—Forman fled in 1968, Fierlinger in 1967.
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