66 Seasons
 
Slowakei 2003 | 84 Min
 

A documentary film about the Košice swimming pool where history came to bathe. Seen through several stories which unfolded between the years 1936 and 2002, the film captures 66 seasons at the popular swimming pool, and the same number of years in the history of Central and Eastern Europe.


Scannán faisnéise faoi linn snámha Košice, áit ar tháinig an stair féin le folcadh. Feicthe trí shraith scéalta a tháinig chun cinn idir 1936 agus 2002, léiríonn an scannán 66 séasúr ag an linn snámha mór le rá, agus an méid céanna blianta i stair Lár & Oirthear na hEorpa. Rinnedh an scannán faisnéise seo faoin tSeanlinn Snámha i Košice, áit ar tháinig an stair féin le folcadh, thar shéasúir an tsamhraidh idir 2000 agus 2002. Feicthe trí shraith scéalta a tháinig chun cinn idir 1936 agus 2002, léiríonn an scannán 66 séasúr ag an linn snámha mór le rá, agus an méid céanna blianta i stair Lár & Oirthear na hEorpa. Tugtar údarás don scannán trí chuimhneacháin roinnt mhaith cuairteoirí ar an “Čéháčko”, mar a thugtaí ar an linn, a dhéanann an lucht scannánaíochta iarracht a chur le chéile in athuair blianta ina dhiaidh sin. Gabhann an linn snámha gné mheitifisiciúil eile dá bhrí sin - mar mhúnla ar dhomhan ina ndéantar cumasc de scéalta príomháideacha agus an stair uilíoch. Tháinig glúnta éagsúla snámhóirí le linn na mblianta, ach fanann an mian le haghaidh uisce mar áit iomlán chomhionannais agus mar fhoinse tacaíochta chomh láidir céanna an t-am ar fad.

This documentary film about the Old Swimming Pool in Košice, where the history came to bathe, was made over the summer seasons 2000 to 2002. Seen through several stories which unfolded between the years 1936 and 2002, the film captures 66 seasons at the popular swimming pool, and also the same number of years in the history of Central and Eastern Europe. The film is supported by the reminiscences of several visitors to the “Čéháčko”, as the pool was known, which the film crew try to reconstruct years later. The swimming pool thus acquires another metaphysical dimension – it resembles a model of the world where, with greater intensity, private stories merge with universal history. Different generations of swimmers replaced one another over the course of the decades, only the craving for water as a place of absolute equality and also a source of security remains just as strong.


 
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