The film gives a complex insight into the gap in political reality of Slovakia - one of the EU countries - which became visible after an investigative journalists Ján Kuciak and his fiancée has been brutally murdered at their home. Following mass demonstrations led to substantial changes in the country's government, but the film doesn't follow history, but much more the universal processes behind the curtain. Journalists, (ex?)-officers of secret services, lawyers and analysts helps to reveal detective story in search of whom ordered to murder a journalist and an innocent girl. But main concern of the film is to reflect mechanisms of oligarchy and mafias (including the Italian) to blackmail key players of the system, to influence public perception and to penetrate police, judiciary and the government in their efforts to rule the country in the ways leading to their profits.
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Zuzana Piussi Director · Miro Remo Cinematographer Šimon Špidla Editor
First release October 10, 2019 · Produced in Czechia, Slovakia · Production Ultrafilm
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D1 Film
Production
Ultrafilm
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Czechia · Slovakia
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Original title
Ukradnutý štát
Original language
Slovak
Spoken on screen
Slovak
Release dates
Slovakia · October 10, 2019
Theatrical
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Czechia
October 27, 2019 · Premiere · Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival
November 7, 2019 · Theatrical
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