Alexander Dubček, the idealist and the leader of the 1968 Prague Spring. The world of small history and big politics come together in a story of the icon of socialism with a human face.
A demystifying documentary about a utopian and political pop star. The face of Dubček in the memory of the world, Slovakia, and that of the witnesses to his life It was in the freedom of the 1960s when the leader of the Prague Spring introduced the idea of “socialism with a human face” which was suppressed by Soviet tanks in 1968. Despite the omnipresent darkness of the totalitarian regime, the face of Dubček had become a symbol. Several decades after his tragic death, we have returned to discover this symbol which has remained alive. We are putting together the pieces of the story of “Dubček’s face”. It is the face of a visionary and Party Secretary, of the ideal and the reality, the absolute and the relative, of the elite and the popular, the political and the personal, the global and the local, of power and powerlessness, of victory and defeat.
The witnesses to his life appear in the lm scenes starting from the utopian commune in Kyrgyzstan where he grew up, through his role as the leader of the Prague Spring, dissident and pris- oner at large, up until his return to the big politics after the 1989 Velvet Revolution and his tragic death.
Both alive and dead, Dubček has been a magnetic force attracting his supporters, admirers, and critics. In the era of the Iron Curtain, but also that of the united Europe - All men become brothers.

Diferent currents of thought bring about fragments and shards of the past into our present. The scenes often appear as abstract bodies in a world of order. They are laid down on a night table, bathroom sink and in one’s life. What to do about it? The symbols of the past dissolve into the present. One could say that my method of initiations and “situational poetry” has come close to a historical grotesque. This is the closest we can get. We laugh and yet we suffer.
The confluence of the worlds of utopians and dogmatists has formed Dubček into the person he was, and he has been now. The observant shots show the world of the characters. At the same time this is no more than a mere observation separated from any feelings and affections.

"Thanks to his authenticity, Dubček rightly fits into the pantheon of the 1960's, alongside Martin Luther King, the Kennedys, Marilyn Monroe, Willy Brandt and others. Internally, I steered clear of the genre of the portrait or classic period biopic. I did a lot of work to find places and meet characters who could, and would, talk about the various periods of Dubček’s life. So the film consists of chapters, which together complete the jigsaw puzzle of Dubček’s face."
Robert Kirchhoff's interview, Cineuropa