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A poignant story about a young girl named Dorotka, who hails from eastern Slovakia. Full of determination and naive expectations regarding her new life; she takes on the job of a seamstress in a small factory on the Czech-German border town of As. Due to the consequences of her own decisions, she is faced with a grim reality in the westernmost corner of the Czech Republic. As is a meeting point for people from both sides of the border. The girls who come to work in the factories would like to earn an honest and decent living, while the relatively well off Germans are in search of an inexpensive good time. As is like a Babylon of languages and morals, which are quickly broken down.

It is a documentary about the Slovak judiciary by Zuzanna Piussi. She remembered a meeting between the governments of the Czech Republic and Slovakia and put it in the documentary. Judge Kozikova denies that that meeting happened. This may cost Ms Piussi two years in jail.

It tells the story of the Czechoslovak politician Alexander Dubcek.

The film is a Slovak version of The Thin Blue Line, recounting the unsolved disappearance and murder of a young woman that happened thirty years ago. It was a case that was paraded in the communist media at the end of which seven individuals were found guilty of this heinous crime. They are the same individuals who at present proclaim their innocence.

The most recent film-novel by the Czech classic film-maker, Karel Vachek, is on the subject of alien civilizations, who do not just live in the cosmos but on planet Earth itself.