Watching TV is an essential part of the Christmas holidays, and many Czechs and Slovaks do not miss the now cult film Beds (1999). The tragicomic story of two families, which takes place at the end of the 1960s, ends with the invasion of Czechoslovakia by Warsaw Pact troops in August. 25 years after the release of the film, he was approached by Čestmír Strakatý also returned with Miroslav Donutil (73). The latter asked the actor if the film did not portray that time “very kindly”.
“I’ll tell you, I probably do. A friend of mine, long-term resident in the USA, who left under very dramatic circumstances, took offense after the screening of that film. At the end is the caption ‘we were left alone for all this, our friends, friends, wives, lovers left…’” explained Donutil.
“He said to me: ‘How do you imagine it? That we had it easy in emigration? That you suffered this and we had a great time? I, literally and figuratively, as Karel Kryl sings, dug the earth with a handle.’ So, he was offended that it turned out that way. Those were definitely not one-sided opinions,” added the representative of Šebko’s father.
The exact sentence at the end of Pelíšok reads: “We dedicate this film to all those whose friends, lovers, parents or children disappeared from year to year, and they were left alone.”
