Lecture: Memory and Representation of Roma Genocide on Film in Czechoslovakia
This online lecture from the Prague–Dresden Lectures series, organised in cooperation with the Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarianism Research, will take place on December 18 from 11:10 a.m. to 12:40 p.m. on Zoom. If you are interested in participating, please register by emailing hait@tu–dresden.de.
The contribution explores the depiction of the genocide of Czech and Slovak Roma and Sinti in post-war Czechoslovak films. Using examples from both fiction and documentary films, it examines how locations associated with the persecution and suffering of Roma victims were portrayed. The study also analyses the political and social factors that influenced these cinematic representations. Additionally, it investigates how Roma survivors and local communities, as witnesses, confronted the memory of the victims in the pre-revolutionary period.
Speaker: Renata Berkyová (ÚSD AV ČR)