Paper Heads

Paper Heads, "a meditation upon freedom and lack of freedom", analyzes totalitarianism in its Czechoslovakian manifestation both from the point of view of individual Czechs and Slovaks, who suffered under it, and from the perspective of mankind's universal and inalienable right to freedom and liberty. The cinematic structure of Paper Heads rests upon twin pillars: interviews with ordinary Czechs and Slovaks, edited to distil and catalogue the Kafkaesque absurdities that had formed the fabric of their lives since 1945, which are contrasted with archival footage from communist propaganda films to show the official version of life in the workers' paradise. (CinEast)