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Eternal Smile of Dana Němcová

director: Ivana Pauerová Miloševič

original title: Věčný úsměv Dany Němcové

country: Czech Republic

year: 2022

running time: 57 min.

synopsis

The life story of an unassuming, modest, yet extremely principled woman is also a dramatic portrait of a time when criticism of the regime and defense of the unjustly prosecuted was punished by imprisonment and constant surveillance from the secret state security. The story also reflects the turning point after the Velvet Revolution, when Dana Němcová briefly entered politics as an active member of the Federal Assembly, or when, in response to the war in the former Yugoslavia, she founded a counselling center for refugees and refugee women in the Czech Republic. In the film, she also meets some of those she helped again after many years.

biography

Director and dramaturge Ivana Pauerová Milošević (* 1976) was born in Sarajevo, graduated from the Faculty of Arts of Charles University in Prague, and studied documentary filmmaking at FAMU. Between 2003 and 2012 she led the Ex Oriente Film workshop and the East European Forum at the Institute of Documentary Film, which she co-founded. She has made the documentaries Never Been Better, Ladies in White, Czech Journal: Children of the State, Love Hate 3 – Domestic Violence against the Elderly, and The Czech Fishing Industry. She works with Czech Television as a project manager and dramaturge of documentary films and series.

more about film

director:	Ivana Pauerová Miloševič
producer:	Alena Müllerová
script:	Ivana Pauerová
photography:	David Cysař
editing:	Hedvika Hansalová
sound:	Ivan Horák, Michal Janoušek, Petr Šoltys

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