The creep of division that can overcome even a generally cohesive community is exposed in Czech director Bohdan Sláma's Shadow Country, no doubt shot in black and white to emphasise the all-pervading shades of grey that are involved. The setting is the area of Vitoraszko. Once part of Bohemia, it moved while staying put, as it was declared part of Austria for 600 years before becoming part of Czechoslovakia in 1920, before, in 1938, Hitler occupied Austria, bringing upheaval again. Director Bohdan Sláma and writer Ivan Arsenyev economically set the scene for all this via intertitles that pose the question that echoes through generations in the fictional village of Schwarzwald - "Who are we and where do we belong?"
Inevitably there are no easy answers and the filmmakers draw on the real-life experiences of the residents of Tuš?, focusing on the daily and the domestic, which allows the film's considerations of division.
Inevitably there are no easy answers and the filmmakers draw on the real-life experiences of the residents of Tuš?, focusing on the daily and the domestic, which allows the film's considerations of division.
- 10/22/2020
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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