Film about Osadne won a prize in Karlsbad

On July 11th, 2009 at the end of the 44th year of the International Film Festival in Karlsbad in the Czech Republic, the film “Osadne” was awarded the prize of the best documentary film over 30 minutes. It is a film on the most easterly place of the European Union, the Rusyn village of Osadné, its inhabitants and their views on the political situation where three main protagonists dominate: Ladislav Mikuláško, the village’s mayor, Peter Soroka, the local Orthodox priest, and Fedor Vico, a Rusyn activist. The creative team of the director Marko Škop, the cameraman Ján Meliš and the editor František Krähenbiel took the Crystal Globe and 5 thousand American dollars. The film “Iné svety (Other worlds)” by M. Škop, also about Rusyns, won, in Karlsbad in 2006, a Special Prize and also the Audience Prize of the Pravo daily newspaper.