Ako som sa stala partizánkou

Vera Lacková never met her great-grandfather. She knows from her grandmother that Ján Lacko fought as a partisan against the Nazi occupation, only to be subsequently caught by the Gestapo and suffer brutal punishment. Through her own family history the director, like her grandmother and great-grandfather a member of the Roma minority in Slovakia, sheds light on the resistance of the Roma in World War II, a chapter of the war that to this day remains largely ignored. To this end the director researches archive materials and meets with contemporary witnesses and politicians in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Despite the prejudice and anti-Romany sentiment she encounters Lacková remains calm and confident, instead choosing to emphasise the human factor and call for empathy. In this way she herself takes on the role of a convincing protagonist in an increasingly participatory culture of debate and its attempts to address an era when matters of life and death were all that mattered.