May We Live in Peace

Viktor Kubal / Czechoslovakia / 1946 / Czech Premiere / 14 min.

synopsis

Agitka dedicated to the post-war population exchange in the south of Slovakia.

Documentary about the Slovak-Hungarian resettlement activity in the south of Slovakia. The film explains - from the Slovak perspective, of course - how the exchange took place, how picturesque it looked, what its “numbers” were, and what its cultural effects were supposed to be. Although it was never an explicit trauma (similar to the German expulsion), Slovak-Hungarian relations, thanks to the ineptitude of later politicians, have still not completely stabilized to this day.

biography

Viktor Kubal (1923–1997)
Kubal, whose origins date back to Školfilm, a company producing narrow films, later grew into the most important personality of Slovak animation. His specific ironic style of elastic figures “tightened” feature films (The Bloody Lady), children’s genres, and satire. It was timeless, and universally applicable.