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War, it’s something to survive

Illustration
  • Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
  • When: January 22, 2015, 19:00 – 21:00

An evening with Petr Toman, an eye witness to the war in Ukraine.

The cruel war in Ukraine is an everyday reality.

It’s war when a psychologist is scared stiff. When a chaplain takes up a machinegun. When the asylums are full throughout Ukraine. When students collect bodies after a battle. War is the scream and yell of a mother. War is a mental shock to an infant just months old. War is invalids that nobody was able to evacuate.

The Czech photojournalist Petr Toman collects interviews in Ukraine on the subject: How war changes mankind. He collects them from Kiev to Kharkov, in Lviv, in Dnipropetrovsk. On the front line, in psychiatric clinics, in the dark apartments of decrepit pre-fab blocks. Because there is more to war than the front line and its victims. It is a beast that sprawls across Ukraine, in the thoughts, bodies and dreams of both adults and children. Petr Toman’s war isn’t about searching for a culprit or stories from the front. It’s about the stories of ordinary people who offer an unusual, even chilling view behind the scenes of the war in Ukraine.

Chaired by Tatiana Sikorska.

Photo (c) Petr Toman

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