The landscape between Netolice and Malovice, cut through by a local railway line. The landscape and its history, scars, stories, memories, images. Genius loci. Dreamlike and terrifying visions of the past and future outside the windows of a train passing through the twilight landscape.
Our initial inspiration was the Malovice landscape, its history, stories, and memories of people who were born there before the war and spent most of their lives there.
Why not try a trip to the closest place, which is just beyond our farm, and stop pretending that we are at home here?
„Cabaret, or rather music, was definitely part of Netolice between the two world wars. The town was an important commercial center with a large German and Jewish community. Now there are maybe eight pubs here, but back then there were over 70. The railway tracks, where today a local train with a maximum of two carriages and five passengers runs, were used to transport livestock, grain from nearby mills, and fruit. It was a place that bustled with life, and the band certainly belonged in the Czech and Jewish pubs. So maybe we added something, but we are definitely basing it on what Netolice used to look like,“ says P. Štourač.
Other stories are also based on historical facts. They describe the fate of a place that was crossed by the demarcation line at the end of World War II, a territory where Russian and Allied troops met. A multi-ethnic place near the beginning of the Sudetenland.
