A MAN LEAVES US
Symposium
Martin Slivka, masterly Slovak director of ethnological films, documents Slavic-Orthodox burial rites in a Bulgarian village, and adds a commentary mainly based on Biblical quotations to the archaic images. After the occupation of the CSSR and the intervention of the Bulgarian consul in Bratislava, the film was banned as “religious propaganda” conveying a “darkly pessimistic” picture of the Bulgarian village, and was first re-discovered and awarded at the 1990 Nyon Festival International de Cinéma.
Martin Slivka, masterly Slovak director of ethnological films, documents Slavic-Orthodox burial rites in a Bulgarian village, and adds a commentary mainly based on Biblical quotations to the archaic images. After the occupation of the CSSR and the intervention of the Bulgarian consul in Bratislava, the film was banned as “religious propaganda” conveying a “darkly pessimistic” picture of the Bulgarian village, and was first re-discovered and awarded at the 1990 Nyon Festival International de Cinéma.
