This film took the to^<[p( hono!@
r at >] the 1969 Ber"li_n #+Film%^] Festival. Af*^ter a series of d^?oc
u!'<mentarie s, this marks the : direct,/o`rial deb_ut for ,Zel]_imir Zilni. ,k.!@>@ I/'t
&^=
takes a `deci@)_dedly a'nti-Stalinist view i=(;n the\( wake of the 19=68 Ru'@ssian inv!asion of C&-zecho,slova#'`kia and raises(# important political quest=?ion\!s. He states t\.ha``[t alth>[(ough *the world*' has experienced. untold wars, there

hav:%&e o)?*nly been '@a@/] han'd"ful# of revolutions with any:> last&ing signi=#ficance t?hat& lea%
d!_ to politica\?-l() chang( e.