Fragile Identity

Fragile Identity 2013 Directed by Zuzana Piussi Krehká identita

Slovak director Zuzana Piussi examines her fellow countrymen’s current notions of nationality. She expresses her concern that Slovak national sentiment is rather fragile and liable to political misuse. The protagonists often reject the leading Czech figures of Czechoslovak history and prefer to look for their roots in the common “pre-national“ past of Great Moravia. Although many of the stories are rather tragicomic, the turbulent developments in the EU have shown that the search for one’s own identity is a sensitive matter not only in Slovakia.

Country Slovakia

Production Countries Czech Republic , Slovakia

Language Slovak

Spoken Language Slovak

Gnere Documentary

Production Companies Produkce Radim Procházka , Ultrafilm

Release Date 19 September 2013