Friends of the Ghetto

The young director Tomáš Vynikal arrives at a Roma ghetto in search of humanity. With an authentic approach, he finds true friendship, but also human corruption. Everything is kept in the dark when the city of Přerov sells the ghetto together with its inhabitants to a private company for the purpose of new housing construction. This company will only go so far to demolish part of the houses and end up insolvent. The work is also a picture of current social problems in the Czech Republic, where human dwellings are meaninglessly devastated. These inhabitants receive new rental flats from the state, thus another ghetto is being created and society is moving in a catch-22 circle. The film contains time spent from September 2010 to September 2020. The documentary is the feature debut of Tomáš Vynikal. This is a fully independent film without state nor commercial support.

Screenwriter, Editor, Producer, Director: Tomáš Vynikal ● Cinematography: Tomáš Vynikal, Šimon Papoušek, Robin Závodný, Zdeněk Eichler, Ondřej Klus, Martin Dvořáček and Milan Cyroň ● Additional Camera: Jonáš Vacek ● Sound Design, Mix, Music: Tomáš Vynikal, Jiří Grúz ● Boom Operators: Jiří Piňos, Josef Kaštil, Robin Závodný, Šimon Papoušek, Zdeněk Eichler, Roman Nepšinský, Jan Princ, Pavel Tóth ● Translation: Michael Stuart Esson ● Text Correction: Radek Malý ● Creative Advisors: Tomáš Binter, Juraj Fándli, Ján Grečnár, Boris Masník, Ľudovít Labík, Iveta Malachovská, Martin Jůza, Andy Fehu, Milan Cyroň, David Lorenz, Jonáš Vacek, Mária Môťovská, Jiří Stejskal, Martin Dvořáček ● Technical Advisors: Aleš Hudský, Jonáš Vacek, Jan Hála and David Lorenz ● Script Editor: Zuzana Pracná ● Colour Correction: Robin Závodný, Tomáš Vynikal