Watching: Koliba

Overview

Zuzana Piussi, the director, in the main role of a documentary crime story about the fate of Slovak cinema. Walking up the hill over Bratislava, which used to house the Slovak National Film Studios – Koliba, she reveals fragments of the controversial truth, absurd half-truths and well-kept secrets and lies about the breakdown of and fraud made on the “family silver”, Slovak cinema. It is the first attempt to explore the problem that, for years, has not been resolved in the Slovak cultural environment.