Akce Asanace

synopsis

Operation Asanace was a communist crime against humanity that remains unpunished to this day, and its victims have yet to receive proper redress. Why is justice so difficult to achieve in our society, and forgetting so easy? And what meaning does the notion of moral vindication still hold today? The machinery of arbitrary power through which the totalitarian regime systematically destroyed the lives of its opponents, using coercion by the secret police (StB), has never been adequately condemned. Following the legal battles of some of its victims, the documentary explores why obtaining justice and redress is so difficult in our society, and how convenient it is to suppress certain memories.

biography

Roman Vávra is a Czech documentary and fiction filmmaker born in Prague. He graduated from the University of Economics in Prague and later studied documentary filmmaking at FAMU. His documentaries include Ota Pavel – jak jsem se zbláznil, Bitva o život (co-directed with M. Janek and V. Janeček), Trafačka – chrám svobody (co-directed with S. Dlouhý), Ivan Havel – Pozdní sběr, Století rádia and Kronika králů. He also directed the fiction films Co chytneš v žitě and Čert ví proč.

film details

director:	Roman Vávra
producer:	Lenka Poláková
script:	Roman Vávra
photography:	Martin Štěpánek
editing:	Katarína Buchanan Geyerová
sound:	Ivan Horák