'A Town Called Hermitage' wins documentary film festival in Jihlava

Film entitled 'A Town Called Hermitage' won the prize for the best Czech documentary at the International Documentary Film Festival in Jihlava. The film by Ondrej Provaznik and Martin Dusek concentrates on a town called Poustevna (Hermitage) and describes the border region in the north of the Czech Republic, formerly known as Sudetenland. Its original German-speaking population was expelled after WWII and replaced by ethnic Czechs.