one Day in a Roma settlement in Romania - Rolling Film Festival

thursday 3 rd of march 21:00
Director & original idea:
Míroslav Janek
Producer: Richard Němec
Production Company: Verbascum
Director of Photography:
Míra Janek
editor: Tonička Janková
vierka, or the mystery of Family B’s
Disappearance
This documentary started out as a portrait of a
young talented Roma singer but turned into a
drama about two different views of “the truth”.
Coincidence is instrumental at the beginning
of the film and the end is shrouded in mystery.
Initially, the story describes the encounter
between singer Ida Kelarová and a young Roma
girl named Vierka Berkyová from Lucenec,
Slovakia whose musical talent astonishes
everyone who hears her sing. It focuses on her
talent and spontaneity, but also deals with the
notion of helping those around us. It presents a
new step forward in the life of the Berky family,
and investigates the idea of mutual coexistence
as it explores the desire to create an idyll in
which the two families share a home. One day
the Berkys suddenly leave Kelarová’s home,
mysteriously disappearing without a trace. For
director and cameraman Miroslav Janek, the
documentary thus transformed into a drama
pitting against each other two versions of the
truth - each one keenly and passionately experienced.
It becomes the means of uncovering
the hidden, in part unacknowledged, forces that
determine one’s ideas about the meaning of
life and its fulfillment. The viewer never actually
finds out the real reasons for this dramatic
turn of events and must be satisfied to merely
approach the truth of the mystery.
30
vierka, ili tajna katri Familjijako B
nashalde
Kaka dokumentarcos poshmisalo sar jekh
portreti e jekhe terne Romano talentno
pevachica, ali o filmi nichino sar drama katro
duj avera istines. Sluchajnost si instrumentalno
ano pocetkos e filmisko ama ano krajos
si uchardo ani misterija. Ko pochetkos,
I storija pokazhizla o susreti mashkar i
pevacica Ida Kelarova hem Vierka Beryova
terni pevacica katro Lucenec ki Slovakia
savako muzichko talenti iznenadizla savoren
ko shunla la sar zjabla. Fokusirizlapes an
lako talenti hem spontanost, ali isto kidja
hem akcija kaj pomozhizasa jekh avereske.
Prestavizla jekh nevo korakos anglal ko
zhivotos e Berky familijake, hem istrazhivizla
i idea katri medjusobno koegzistencija tuj
prikazhizel i zhelja to keren jekh “ideja” kaj
o duj familjes deljizna jekh kher. Jekh zis
i Berky familija nashla katro e Kelarovako
kher, ano tajanstveno nachini oj nashalcola
bi tragosko. E direktoriske hem e kamermaniske
Miroslav Janek, o dokumentarcos
pretvorizlapes ki drama kola ko rodna o
cachipe – sol duj ano pharo hem emotivno
nachini dozhivizna kaka filmi.