Hluché dni / Silent Days
Ein Film von Pavol Pekarčík. SK/CZ 2019, 81 Min.; Slo­wa­kisch/Romanes

Demnächst beim trinationalen Neiße-Film­fes­ti­val 2021 (17./19.9.2021)

Sandra liebt Fußball und und verehrt Ronaldinho, Marian spielt Film­szenen von Jean-Claude Van Damme nach und will Zug­begleiter wer­den. Alena und René hoffen, dass ihr Baby gesund ge­boren wird und die Geschwis­ter Roman, Kristián und Karmen träumen von einer richtigen Toilette mit Spülung. Die jungen Protagonist*innen des Films leben mit ihren Träumen und Hoff­nun­gen in Roma-Siedlungen am Rande der Gesell­schaft, und sie haben eine weitere Ge­mein­sam­keit: Sie sind gehörlos. Der warm­herzige Film kom­biniert dokumenta­ri­sche und insze­nierte Szenen aus ihrem Alltag, in denen un­schul­dige Kinder­spiele einen scharfen Kontrast zu einer trost­losen Um­gebung bilden.
(Neiße Filmfestival)

»Pavol Pekarčík has made what is so far the warmest Slovak docu-fiction drama about the Roma po­pu­lation, one of the staples of the country’s mo­dern cinema.«
(Vladan Petković in Cineuropa)

Pavol Pekarčík in einem Interview mit Cineuropa, 2019:
Cineuropa: Your protagonists come from a margina­lised group of an already mar­gi­na­lised group. Why did you decide to por­tray them, spe­ci­fi­cally?
Pavol Pekarčík: Today’s society is atomising. We are living separated from one another, and com­mu­nities are vanishing. The mutual con­nec­tion between the com­mu­nities is dis­solving, as is the solidarity that stems from this con­nection. There are young people out there who have never met a Roma or a disabled person at any point in their entire edu­cation. Society is trying to push them onto the fringes. And these young people who have never been in a diffe­rent social bubble are ente­ring state offices and the public ad­mi­nistra­tion. How can we expect them to have even a basic emotional under­stan­ding of the people they are supposed to be taking care of? This is a peek into one of those bubbles, into its problems and joys. We dis­cover that even disabled kids from a margi­na­lised group have their own dreams, and that should help us to be more empathetic – and maybe even inspire us to try to find some­thing that could help them. That is some­thing I might expect from the viewer.

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