Did this cause discord in Czechoslovakia?

blablalba....Slovakia broke up with Czechs before Czech lands got under the German rule and declared its own Clericfashist state. Slovaks even helped Germans to attack Poland, Russia...no other country in CEE exterminated its complete Jewish population in several weeks like Slovaks did right after the war started. Jews controlled 70% of Slovak industry and once they got rid of them, Slovaks started to fight for the Jewish property... In recent BBC document on Auschwitz the Slovaks were signed as the most eager German helpers in the first years of war - They really managed to put their Jews on trains to Osvetim within two months... Also Slovak National Uprising was not at all an uprising, but a small action sparked by the CS army in Russia which failed as the Russian/CS troops did not reach Slovakia in time and the few partisans (not exactly Slovaks) operating there were not able to defend themselves against the German counterattack. As for this movie, this is objectively more a Czech than Slovak achievement as Slovakia has not been able to look objectively on its history - it has not till now... it is by the way the only country in this region which so far has not returned and has not even compensated the survivors of its Jewish holocaust. You guys really believe that Slovaks would ever make such a movie if even talking of holocaust is still a tabu in Slovakia?

Yes, my father, Ladislav Grosman, was born in Humenne. He moved to Prague in 1945, right after the war and completed his university degrees in Czech. He wrote the original story in Slovak and the screenplay in Czech

I am pretty sure that the name is Jewish, so the writer is probably a Slovak Jew. There were 90,000 Jews in Slovakia before the war (numbers taken from another recent movie on this topic), and only 1500 have survived.

Wlacho is entirely right about this. The only thing that mattered was whether the film fit with Communist ideology (don't get me wrong, this film was not propaganda and was excellent, what I mean is that it doesn't contradict Communist ideology - East bloc filmmakers of that period had to be careful and clever not to cross the line). The Communists were always happy about anything that portrayed the crimes of the Nazis and their collaborators (of course, nobody could breath a word about their own crimes). I just read an interesting piece in the Czech newspaper about a boy who survived Lidice (a Czech village that was wiped off the map in retaliation for the resistance's assasination of the Nazi leader in Czech and Moravia, Heydrich, everyone over 15 was killed, and suitable children were sent to the Reich to be adopted by Germans). When he returned after the War, he was a valuable item for the Communists, because as a survivor of one of the worst Nazi atrocities in that country, he could be used by the Communists as a propaganda tool. Unfortunately for him, he committed what was in the Communist's eyes a great heresy - he fell in love with and had a child with the daughter of a big landowner (you know, a class enemy). So he couldn't be used as a propaganda tool, and that sealed his fate; he became oppressed by the regime.