Footprints: Fighting in Banská Štiavnica | movie | 2023 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

The film is a search for Peter Gasparik's grandfather Stefan Truban, who was a resistance fighter and concealed the pers | dG1fQWI3a3I5Q3gxSTg

Transcript

00:00We are going to Šťavnica. Again and again.

00:19I have nothing to do with it anymore, more or less just memories of my old father.

00:24How it was during the war, how they suffered, how they survived it all.

00:35There was a pink villa.

00:38Under it is the cellar where people were hiding, where my old father had them.

00:45My uncle mentioned how they were skiing on this side, so that you couldn't see their feet.

00:54The fascists put him up against the wall, dragged him out with the little kids,

01:00waited there and searched everything, but found nothing.

01:05They didn't find those people, so they left him like that.

01:10In fact, it was a great advantage of this area,

01:13that only the locals knew where the guns were.

01:17The fascists, and I don't know how many,

01:20they didn't know where the guns were.

01:23The fascists and the Germans, when they occupied it, they didn't know.

01:29If you just want to document the underground, you have three lives and robots.

01:34It's up to 1,300 meters deep, 10,000 women's corridors.

01:39If they wanted, they would hide three cities there.

01:43This gun was used to approach the people who were hiding,

01:48and then it was used to lead the Russian army.

01:54There was a meter of water there, so no one thought it was possible to go there.

01:59How did they get to it?

02:01There was a part of it behind the Pochodná Lavka store.

02:06The whole of this mountain range was defended by the Germans.

02:10By leading the soldiers through this water tunnel, they had to retreat.

02:15This prevented the destruction of Pjarga, the women's corridor,

02:20and the whole area from being bombed.

02:27When the uprising broke out, and the times were tough,

02:30when someone betrayed, my father was the gendarme,

02:34he often came to report it to him.

02:36He told the partisans who were hiding there, and so on.

02:40He always made it known, as a link, or our link.

02:46How do you explain my old father?

02:50It's his ability to distinguish between the right and the wrong.

02:56Although he officially served as a gendarme in the services of the Slovak state,

03:02he was able to distinguish that the regime was, on the other hand, a crime,

03:09and that the people who were hiding there weren't guilty.

03:14They didn't do anything wrong.

03:19What is good and bad in discussions in the world is just and unjust.