Návrat do Adriaportu

• The project is a result of a cooperation with00:00:26.211
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• my brother Džian and Vojta Mašek.00:00:28.723
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• They've heard about the 1970s idea to dig00:00:31.191
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• a tunnel from České Budějovice to the Adriatic.00:00:36.721
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• The idea was published in Lidové noviny00:00:41.684
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• for the first time in 2009.00:00:44.006
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• The boys made a full-length film script00:00:48.412
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• which was never carried out but00:00:53.573
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• it became a thread of their script.00:00:56.514
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• When I was offered to take part in00:01:01.673
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• the video festival Loop in Barcelona,00:01:04.430
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• we wanted to present something about Czechoslovakia.00:01:07.920
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• The Švestka Gallery was the only one representing00:01:19.004
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• the Central or East Europe.00:01:22.283
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• I wanted to tell the international audience00:01:24.861
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• something about the Czechoslovakian history.00:01:28.712
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• So this Utopian project from the past suggested itself.00:01:34.731
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• It was created gradually,00:01:57.172
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• I guess it was similar to making00:02:00.138
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• a documentary film even I have never worked on any.00:02:03.904
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• I contacted the Prague project engineering company Pragoprojekt00:02:12.060
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• which has the original documentation about00:02:19.527
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• the tunnel in their archive.00:02:23.697
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• Another materials, circumstances and people00:02:26.176
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• started to come up successively.00:02:30.766
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• So I got to the former director of Pragoprojekt00:02:33.904
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• Mr Tvrzník, who is00:02:37.043
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• and he won't hear a word against the project.00:02:41.405
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• He was willing to appear in the film,00:02:45.506
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• we made interviews with him and he also00:02:49.283
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• provided us with his personal documentation.00:02:53.729
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• It's important to say that the author of00:02:57.448
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• the original railway link project going under the ground00:03:01.922
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• from Czechoslovakia to the Adriatic00:03:08.290
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• was the professor of economics Karel Žlábek,00:03:10.072
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• who was in the00:03:12.921
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• and he had born this idea for a very long time.00:03:19.144
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• He studied economics in Switzerland and Europe,00:03:23.444
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• he was a kind of globe-trotter and00:03:27.150
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• a visionary at the same time.00:03:29.258
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• He calculated the link would be extremely advantageous.00:03:32.158
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• Because of the tunnel shortness00:03:37.006
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• which was about00:03:40.037
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• by the elevated line we would get00:03:43.406
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• to the sea in two hours.00:03:46.124
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• He planned the link from České Budějovice00:03:49.883
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• across Linz and the train would get out00:03:54.473
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• in Koper near Trieste.00:03:58.089
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• Prof. Žlábek even counted on making use00:04:06.011
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• of the material from the tunnelling.00:04:11.944
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• He wanted to pile it up to make a peninsula00:04:16.328
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• that would become a part of Czechoslovakian territory.00:04:21.728
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• So the Czechoslovakians would gain a peninsula called Adriaport.00:04:26.152
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• The film is about my vision the tunnel was constructed in 198000:05:03.773
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• and hundreds of Czechoslovakians00:05:12.535
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• went through the tunnel to the sea.00:05:19.800
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• They experienced their first and only holiday on the island.00:05:25.406
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• I used the peninsula's project name Adriaport and00:05:30.794
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• created an independent island in the Adriatic.00:05:37.335
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• It's a Czechoslovakian territory with Czechoslovakians only00:05:44.377
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• and Czechoslovak hotels and so on.00:05:53.915
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• We let the island be created in our film,00:05:57.929
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• there is the president of that time Gustav Husák00:06:03.050
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• and professor Karel Žlábek as the project author.00:06:07.252
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• The film starts with Karel Žlábek trying00:06:13.470
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• to convince Gustav Husák of the idea brilliance00:06:16.285
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• and Gustav Husák gives him the green light.00:06:21.419
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• But soon strange things start to happen on the island,00:06:35.673
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• there live weird animals,00:06:40.898
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• paranormal activities are coming about.00:06:43.159
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• Prof. Žlábek thinks it's because Czechoslovakia00:06:49.868
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• broke the law about territory.00:06:53.590
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• How could Czechoslovakians have sea when it's given00:06:57.674
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• neither by history nor by territory acts.00:07:01.667
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• There certainly is a history parallel,00:08:35.782
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• the tunnel or the way of the Czechoslovakians00:08:40.035
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• to the sea in the days of iron curtain00:08:43.202
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• symbolizes their escape to freedom.00:08:45.787
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• Of course it's relative because it was00:08:53.020
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• possible to run away to the East,00:08:56.008
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• to the former Yugoslavia.00:08:58.189
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• So there is this paradox and at the same time a parallel00:09:00.229
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• to a specific Czechoslovakian00:09:03.830
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• custom which were the escapes to00:09:06.664
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• weekend houses and cottages at weekends00:09:09.350
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• and suddenly they just shut the door and went on holiday.00:09:11.340
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• I work with the issue of a history manipulation,00:09:31.282
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• with a personal memory,00:09:36.547
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• memory of kids and facts perversion.00:09:39.597
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• It's a certain parallel to the Communist rhetoric00:09:45.268
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• and the way they would alter and adapt the history.00:09:50.465
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• I had historic material at my disposal and00:09:54.867
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• I treated it in a manipulatory way,00:09:57.485
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• which means I started to make up things,00:09:59.587
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• re-edited the scenes and00:10:03.202
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• put them into another context.00:10:06.524
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• I adapted them to my story which I needed to get in.00:10:10.585
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• That's how I follow up with my previous video work.00:10:15.426

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