director: Robert Mihály
original title: Nech žije smrť
country: Slovakia
year: 2021
running time: 20 min.
password: anniversary
LONG LIVE DEATH
On the 31st anniversary of the Velvet Revolution, several students of the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava split into smaller film crews in order to record demonstrations initiated primarily by the far right and the neo-Nazi wing of football hooligans. Protests, which are being used by some opposition parties to to strengthen their political capital, are taking place at a time of intensifying the global Covid-19 pandemic. The film focuses on random and selected actors in several parallel demonstrations, which merged into one, and tries to analyze this event through a lecture by the Italian philosopher Umberto Eco entitled Ur-Fascism.
