Footprints: Fighting in Banská Štiavnica | movie | 2023 | Official Trailer
The film is a search for Peter Gasparik's grandfather Stefan Truban, who was a resistance fighter and concealed the pers | dG1fQWI3a3I5Q3gxSTg
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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.