(Chačipe / Vierka), Miroslav Janek / CZ, 2005
Czech version, 133 min
- Miroslav Janek observes life in a children’s home through games. He chooses the children like partners for filming, teaches them to handle the camera, and leaves them to film their environment themselves.
- When the singer Ida Kellerová heard the recording with Vierka’s songs she not only decided to invite the talented young woman to work with her but also opened up her entirely family to Vierka to live with. These Slovakian Roma, still living in chillingly inadequate conditions in flats without electricity, move, and thus begins the adventure in which this consummate musician and her uncoventional guests live together. One day however Vierka and her entire family disappear…The director and cameraman Miroslav Janek filmed this documentary drama, which is about two distinct truths, experienced with equal commitment and passion, and about the hidden and often unacknowledged forces that determine and condition the various ideas about a person’s journey through life.
