Dedicated to the living and the dead. Video film about the self-destruction of a young person subject to drug addiction. A dramatic story from the environment of drug addicts. Released in 1990, directed by Samuel Ivaška, based on the 1986 book by te same name written by Radek John
The film shows the fate of a person who, in his brave work, ordinary efforts, after a bit of luck, encountered misunderstanding, selfishness, careerism and cowardice. It is a rallying cry for the unequal struggle for civil honor amid the contrast between the official and real hierarchy of the scientific workplace. The protagonist has only one choice. To come to terms with the world he lives in or to rebel against it.
The film combines two stories - "Vetranie drevenice" (Ventilating the Wooden House) and "Dovidenia mama" (Goodbye, Mom). Two wooden houses cover the lives of the people who lived in them for generations... In the first, they inspired the great poet P. O. Hviezdoslav to write the poem "Hájnikova žena", and the inhabitants of the second belong to the present day.
