Fragile Identity (2013)

Slovak director Zuzana Piussi examines her fellow countrymen’s current notions of nationality. She expresses her concern that Slovak national sentiment is rather fragile and liable to political misuse. The protagonists often reject the leading Czech figures of Czechoslovak history and prefer to look for their roots in the common “pre-national“ past of Great Moravia. Although many of the stories are rather tragicomic, the turbulent developments in the EU have shown that the search for one’s own identity is a sensitive matter not only in Slovakia.

Released Sept. 19, 2013 75 min None+

Genres: Documentary

Production Companies: Produkce Radim Procházka, Ultrafilm

Country: Slovakia
Production Countries: Czech Republic, Slovakia
Languages: Slovak