Uzhgorod and its Surroundings

Czech Republic / 1922 / 16 min.

synopsis

A documentary guide to Uzhgorod, the film offers a young country's view of its easternmost region. Celebrations of the independence of Czechoslovakia, an army parade, a mass, or the district office and lyceum buildings are an eloquent personification of Carpathian Ruthenia’s incorporation within Czechoslovakia (not only on film). The solemn march of troops is followed by an ethnographical display, featuring a folk festivity, woodcutters, a gypsy belle, laughing children and a gypsy fiddler. The final sequence showing graves represents a memento of the of the Great War, a mere four years in the past.