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Cast

Crew

Martin Müller

Martin Müller

Director

Kateřina Mildnerová

Kateřina Mildnerová

Story

Radim Kaller

Radim Kaller

Director of Photography

Karel Vaněk

Karel Vaněk

Sound

Dan Tyrlík

Dan Tyrlík

Camera Operator

Kateřina Mildnerová

Kateřina Mildnerová

Screenplay

Tomáš Doruška

Tomáš Doruška

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BLACK CZECHS

20220.0 / 1065 min
Documentary

Overview

In the 1980s, dozens of Namibian children were brought up in socialist Czechoslovakia. The aim of this special education program was to raise a new generation of children as a politically conscious elite. But the experiment ended in the early 1990s following fundamental political changes in both countries. The children were forcibly repatriated back to Namibia where they were unable to adapt culturally due to never having completed their elementary education nor receiving any formal language and psychological training. Documentary filmmakers tracked down the now-adult Namibian children and followed their fates both in Namibia and in the Czech Republic over the course of three years.