Barbora Berezňáková

The still unexplained murder of former police officer Robert Remiáš in 1996, which appears to have involved the Slovak secret service at the behest of those in the highest places, remains a major blemish on the young Slovak democracy. The year before, the state directed the kidnapping of the son of the Slovak president, with whom the then Prime Minister Vladimír Mečiar had a dispute. And Remiáš, who was the only witness to the kidnapping, became inconvenient...

What did you do on New Year's Eve 1993? Did you recover from the New Year's Eve party? Did you watch the division of Czechoslovakia? Did you celebrate the establishment of the Slovak Republic? Slovakia is a young state that is still in the process of finding its own identity. After the division of the republic, nationalism, abuse of power and corruption came to the fore in the wild 1990s. As a young democracy, we are still trying to deal with this legacy 30 years after the establishment of an independent republic. On the other hand, space is slowly but surely being created for our own modern identity, culture and perhaps even a rule of law that is part of the modern European community.

The documentary is a continuation of the film on the events of August 1968 and presents the history told through individual testimonies and experiences. It is a diverse reflection on the transformation of society, its connection to the previously closed world around it, and getting used to the newly acquired rights and freedoms. It does not focus on the stories of faces familiar from the revolutionary tribunes, but on the small-scale reliving of small personal histories in the context of great social changes with the distance of 30 years of living in freedom.