28th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival

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Normalization
Normalization
Normalization

Normalization

director: Robert Kirchhoff
original title: Kauza Cervanová
country: Slovakia, Czech Republic
year: 2013
running time: 100 min.

synopsis

Nearly 40 years ago, a young woman was murdered in Slovakia. To this day, the group of men who were convicted of this crime have tried in vain to prove that they are the victims of judicial terror. The director, who does not hide the fact that the sympathizes with the convicted, goes beyond their case and indirectly reveals doubts as to the trustworthiness of his country’s judicial system.

Only once do most of the convicted appear together before the camera: when their sentences are confirmed in 2006. More than the words, recriminations, anger, and sadness, the viewer remembers their exhausted expressions and the realization that they can never give up.

more about film

director: Robert Kirchhoff
producer: Robert Kirchhoff
Ministerstvo kultury
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