A love story written in smuggled letters across the Iron Curtain — history didn't see it coming.
An original film testimony about the time 30 years ago. Peter Kořínek is 21 years old, hailing from Pardubice. He listens to underground bands, reads samizdat books, and faces school troubles due to his long hair. He dreams of emigration. It is the beginning of 1989, and there is no indication that he will experience freedom in communist Czechoslovakia.
Direction
Strachota treats archives like love letters, not evidence.
Sound
Hájek and Hádek's voices ache with impossible distance.
Director
Karel Strachota
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The real Petr Kořínek's letters were buried in a garden to survive police raids.
Czech 'samizdat' wasn't just books — handmade cassettes of The Cure and underground bands circulated like contraband currency.
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