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Dec 1, 2021 · Director Vera Lacková talks about the origins of her film How I Became a Partisan. Her search for and revealing of the stories of Romani partisans is based p...
While uncovering her family’s partisan past, director Vera Lacková learns about other forgotten Roma fighters. During her search, she comes up against deep-rooted prejudice, indifference, and hatred towards the Roma community.
Vera Lacková’s How I Became a Partisan ( Ako som sa stala partizánkou, 2021) Vol. 132 (February 2023) by Alice Heneghan. When a memory is created in the human brain, neural pathways are formed that, although they get stronger each time the memory is revisited, fade away if they fall out of use.
Short Synopsis: In 1944, Slovak partisans rise up against their Nazi occupiers and the collaborationist Slovak government. Among their ranks: the Roma partisan Ján Lacko. While he is out fighting, Lacko’s family is taken to a forest and murdered.
This documentary film reveals how the lives of the descendants of a partisan fighter in the Second World War are still impacted by the events of that period, 75 years after the end of hostilities. In making her case, Lacková provides glimpses into her private surroundings.
- Vera Lacková
Apr 26, 2021 · Documentary feature How I Became a Partisan comes with an unprecedented story of Slovak, Czech or Czechoslovak history. Main theme of the movie is searching for the fate of forgotten Roma partisans. The author of the film is the Romani director Vera Lacková.
Apr 26, 2021 · Slovak filmmaker Vera Lacková finished her feature-length documentary debut How I Became a Partisan [+ see also: interview: Vera Lacková film profile] during the pandemic. Lacková was involved in the docu-project Europe: a Homeland for Roma (2014).
