This episode from the Czech Journal series examines how a military spirit is slowly returning to our society. Attempts to renew military training or compulsory military service and in general to prepare the nation for the next big war go hand in hand with society’s fear of the Russians, the Muslims, or whatever other “enemies”. This observational flight over the machine gun nest of Czech militarism becomes a grotesque, unsettling military parade. It can be considered not only to be a message about how easily people allow themselves to be manipulated into a state of paranoia by the media, but also a warning against the possibility that extremism will become a part of the regular school curriculum.
Director Adéla Komrzý (1992) studied art history and is currently a student at FAMU’s department of documentary film. Her previously film Teaching War, was made as part of the Czech Journal television series and had its premiere at the 2016 Ji.hlava IDFF.
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