Nástup 295 A/1944

Slovakia / 1944 / Czech Premiere / 12 min.

synopsis

The fascist propaganda of one of the weekly newspapers at the end, and its formula: the thief shouts “catch that thief”.

In the weekly Nástup from 1944, actually the last year of the war, we see, in addition to the foreign spots, two Slovak reports of the time: a picture of everyday life in Bratislava shortly after the bombing of the Apollo refinery by “Anglo-American terrorists”, and a report from an anti-Bolshevik exhibition. A travelling train exhibition with realistic dioramas staging Soviet terror (so similar to the images of the soon-to-be-revealed Nazi concentration camps) was meant to disgust the nation with Bolshevism, as the liberating Red Army was already at the door...