HOW I HAVE BECOME A PARTISAN

The showing of a pioneering feature-cum-documentary film directed by talented Roma director Vera Lacková is the main film blockbuster of this year’s Khamoro.

The theme of the documentary is closely related to the director’s family. She learned about her great-grandfather’s story who was a Roma partisan, from her grandmother. Because of his participation in the resistance movement, his six-member family was killed in the war – they included two babies, two older sisters, his wife, and his mother. He was interned in a concentration camp at that time, and he learned about the tragedy after he returned home. After the war he married again to a woman with a similar fate – her husband was murdered by Germans. The great-grandfather had three daughters with her, the youngest of whom was the director’s grandmother.

„It is not much known about Roma in the resistance movement. They are mostly thought of as holocaust victims. But there is no awareness of them as heroes, “says Vera Lacková.

Her documentary is packed with emotions and a great deal of tension because Vera had to develop an almost detective effort when collecting facts.

The screening will be followed by a discussion with the protagonists of the documentary.