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Memories of a Border Guard-dog

 
Memories of a Border Guard-dog

(Les mémoires d'un chien-frontiere) Director: Karel Prokop, F, 1998, French-czech-Russian-English-German version / French subtitles / translated into Czech, 58 min

In the end of the 1940s Europe is devided by the Iron curtain. On the side of people’s democracies the border-guard is accompanied by police dogs specially trained to identify the class enemy. Autobiografi cal story of one of this dogs, starting at his birth on the police breeding station and endig by his retirement, shows in an original way the history of central Europe – the years aft er WWII., the Cold War, technological progress of the border-guard and normalization, till opening of the borders in the year 1989, when the old and ill dog watches his whole world break-down. SVĚTOZOR


 

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