The film was shot by Swiss director Eric Bergkraut. The festival, whose jury's honorary chairman is former Czech president Vaclav Havel, awards the films that exceptionally contribute to human rights protection. The jury has praised the film A Letter to Anna as a complex portrait Czechs critical of work of their MEPs-poll ...
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Czech president receives Russian Pushkin Medal ... of Politkovska, a journalist and human rights fighter who was among the critics of the "second Chechen war" including the massacring of civilians by the Russian military, and of President Vladimir Putin's rule gradually bringing the country back to dictatorship. Havel, a former Czechoslovak leading anti-communist dissident, said Politkovska's fate amounted to a drama of Russian democracy. "She was an admirable courageous woman and it is in the interest of all of us, mainly the Russians, to find the truth about her murder.
We can only hope that her death will be understood as a sacrifice that would provoke self-preservation movements in Russian society," Havel said. Bergkraut said he did not want the film to be a glorification of Politkovska, who definitely was not infallible as no one is. He said he was fascinated by Anna's strong will to find the truth and her readiness to do everything for this.
(Ceske Noviny)
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