Opona - CDmp3 (Čte Lukáš Hlavica)

Is it possible to look behind the Iron Curtain and experience a vacation in the midst of the Stalinist fifties? The hero of Hübl's dystopian thriller, a billionaire in the IT business, buys such a family trip to rid his leftist daughter of her radical views while also resolving a marital crisis. At first, it seems that a specialized travel agency has prepared a perfect illusion of the harshest totalitarianism: they find themselves in a town somewhere in the east, where hired actors pretend to be genuinely building communism with political trials, collectivization, hard labor in mines, and informants. However, it soon becomes clear that everything is staged a bit differently. The game of dictatorship intensifies, and the hero's role suddenly takes a dramatic turn. Or is it all not a performance, and are the actors living the real lives of their original characters? This thrilling narrative, full of mysteries, absurdity, sarcastic humor, and unexpected twists, raises current questions: To what extent do we live free lives? What are we willing to sacrifice for an imagined freedom? And are we not voluntarily rushing towards a new form of totalitarianism that offers us only dubious comfort? narrator: Lukáš Hlavica duration: 12 hours 2 minutes