Petr Dudek: A Man with a Story

Even 70 years after the end of the Second World War, not all the stories that began in its chaos have been concluded. Ladislav Mrkvička in the role of a man who has lived his whole life on someone else's account. Petr Dudek's play is set in two time zones - 1942 and the present. It soon turns out that the point man of both lines is Pavel Zvolánek, a war orphan, the son of resistance fighters executed in Mauthausen. The seventy-five-year-old man has acted as the guardian of his parents' heroic legacy for most of his life, even though he has no authentic memories of them. Everything he knows about his family and his early childhood is due to his aunt, who rescued him from a Nazi institution for war orphans with considerable personal commitment. But could Zvolánek really know the whole truth about his past? Or had he formed an idea about her that was easier for him to accept?