Kde je pravda?

How is it possible that in one country, in one half of the century, in a turbulent and unclear time, two people live not far from each other – a businessman with so-called “right-wing” views and an artist with so-called “left-wing” views, and both can be right? What is this truth and where is it to be found? Is there only one? What do these so different people have in common? What strange time was that second half of the twentieth century? These are the questions that may come to mind when watching the confrontation between two Czech Chileans, Milan Platovsky and Hanns Stein. The fate of the former could be written in the Guinness Book of Records – he is a twice-nationalised capitalist. The latter, on the other hand, has always been where the violence has come – in 1939 (Hitler), 1968 (Brezhnev) and 1973 (Pinochet) – on the other side, of course. You can meet both of them in the documentary film by Pavel Koutecký and Jan Burian, made in January 1999.