Mein Kroj

In his northern Bohemian hometown the costumes vanished after the Second World War together with the local German population. Director Martin Dušek thus resolves to create his very own costume borrowing from the remnants of his family past; he dons a pioneer neckerchief, knee-high socks and indicator lights, in the process revealing his native region's lack of a sense of history. What at first sight might strike viewers as a Borat-like satire is, in fact, an absolutely serious examination of the consequences of the forced resettlement of Sudeten Germans from Czechoslovakia in the aftermath of the Second World War. CF