The Long Road, the first film by Alfréd Radok (1914-1976), became so unbearable for the communist regime through the compulsive expression of its images from the Terezín ghetto and its irritating combination of fiction and documentary that it was first briefly relegated to rural cinemas and then completely removed from distribution.
Radok's colleague Otakar Vávra, who found Radok's style too convulsive, had a hand in this. As Vávra confessed in his memoirs The Strange Life of a Director (1996), when the leading party ideologist, Information Minister Václav Kopecký, asked him about the film, he did not keep his opinion silent and Kopecký banned further screenings of Far Away in cinemas...
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