2022 | Czech Republic | Documentary

Černí Češi (Black Czechs)

  • Czech, English - 71 mins
  • Director | Martin Müller
  • Writer | Kateřina Mildnerová, Martin Müller
  • Producer | -

STATUS: Released

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In the eighties of the last century, 56 Namibian children were raised in socialist Czechoslovakia. The special educational program of the Namibian liberation movement SWAPO and the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia aimed to raise children into a new generation of politically aware elite. This political experiment failed in the early nineties due to fundamental political changes in both countries. The children were forcibly resettled in Namibia without completing basic education and without any linguistic and psychological training, where they were unable to culturally adapt. The documentary filmmakers searched for traces of now-adult Namibian children and followed their fates both in Namibia and in the Czech Republic for three years. To this day, black Czechs remain imprisoned in the memories of their idyllic childhood in Czechoslovakia, which they consider their true home.

Documentary Namibian Children Czechoslovakia Cultural Identity Repatriation
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