Scene from the film Everyday I Step In Front of Your Face
Scene from the film Everyday I Step In Front of Your Face
Scene from the film Everyday I Step In Front of Your Face

Everyday I Step In Front of Your Face

Direction
Year 
1992
Country
  • Czech Republic
Runtime
29min 
Audio Tracks 
Subtitles 

After the "Velvet Revolution" of 1989, a number of previously taboo subjects opened up to Czech documentary filmmaking. One of these was the theme of the post-war resettlement of the Sudeten Germans from Czechoslovakia. Director Drahomira Vihanova made a documentary portrait of "unresettled" German, Eimann, who is almost ninety years old. He now lives alone in the Orlicke mountains. The fate of this man and his family was strongly impacted by the Second World War and by the postwar political situation. The family remained in Bohemia and Eimann, as a German soldier and Russian POW, could not return home for several years. After his return in the mid-fifties, the new reality of totalitarian regime was awaiting him. Vihanova has raised the lifestory of this man above historical particulars. She captures the old man in his daily routine activities, essential for his traditional way of life. She allows her protagonist to speak not only of the past and the suffering which life has dealt him, but also of his relationship with God and other people. Through the great humility with which Eimann expresses himself, the film reflects the lot of these few Germans who stayed here after the war, and it also reflects the fate of those who were forced to leave. The director, by describing this unique fate, in a life permeated with a spirit of reconciliation, attempts to find for herself (and for the viewer) an answer to the question of the meaning of life. It finds him in humble surrender and wise reconciliation to the course of life where this simple man, restrained by history, understands his lot.

CS version here. DE version here.

Details

  • Original Title
    Denně předstupuji před Tvou tvář / EN version
  • Direction
  • Screenplay
    Drahomíra Vihanová
  • Cinematography
    Ivan Vojnár
  • Editing
    Hana Sakařová
  • Sound
    Libor Sedláček
  • Runtime
    29 min (16-30 min.)
  • Year
    1992
  • Country
    • Czech Republic

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