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A co-produced Slovak-Canadian dramedy, pointing out the issue of an individual´s membership in the StB and the subsequent impact on his family. The film combines a serious topic with the division of Czechoslovakia into two separate states, the peaceful process of which the other states of the world look at in shock and give it as inspiration. The movies steals for itself a completely charming, charismatic and all the other actors overshadowing Rachel Kramer with American-Canadian roots as Charlie McKenzie. If only for the reason of seeing the first feature film of this emerging global film star, I recommend going to see Michal Kunes Kovac´s film in the cinema, where he will literally captivate you with her performance.

Contrary to content highlighted in the official trailer, this story does not deal with complicated relationship between Czech and Slovaks in the Czechoslovak Federation in years following the fall of communist regime or the dissolurion of this country itseld. Apart from a few sentences devoted to this matter (all packed into the trailer), this movie rather focuses on the communist past and its impact on individual families. It is somewhat dissapointing, that from four decades of totaliarian regime with thosands of well-documented attrocities commited by the secret communist police, the filmmakers 30-something years later chose a rather banal case for the movie.

The scenes were good for that particular era, with only minor imperfections and details. Kramer, the young canadian/american actress, was a true delight in the movie, unfortunately, it was not enough to save this title from a disappointing impression.