Matej Drlička, who was dismissed as the head of the Slovak National Theater by the far-right government of Robert Fico, spoke with passion about what was happening in his country at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, and called on the film industry to pressurize the European Union to protect cultural and artistic freedom from autocrats.
He said that since 2023, when Fico returned to power for the fourth time, the story of his country’s history had become “slightly frightening.”
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He added: “We start to speak about democratic backsliding in our country. I don’t want to be too political, but we are
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