Is this film really about the hollocaust

I find it strange that this film apparently only ever turns up in holocaust film festivals.
It's time its meaning was re-examined.

I would say its not really at all a film about the holocaust, even though it's main protagonist is jewish.
It does play, in a very ambiguous way with references to the idea that it might be about a time that could have existed after the holocaust, if the Nazis had won the war.
But even that scenario does not make it a film specifically about the holocaust. If my memory serves me correctly , the authoritarian government portrayed does not actually use a swastika, but a sign thats sort of like it.

The holocaust was used by the Communist authorities to enforce their own agenda. It remained one of the very few subjects Czechs were allowed to explore and did so in great detail. What Brynch did with this film is use that tyranny to smuggle out a story which is altogether about a different, but very real reality.
The holocaust & the Nazi occupation of Czechoslavakia took place within a definable period of history. It had a beginning & an end & it left behind it's damage. It was marked by real behaviours & reactions & dramas which were gone over , told , recorded, considered.
I think that it depletes an examination, that belongs to a different epoch of history, to claim this film as somehow really about the holocaust.

It becomes devisive to do so, in that it conceals the complexities of 20th century tragedies & renders all symbols of jewishness as somehow only refering to one story.
The irony in this film becomes lost & so does the context of cinematic history, where-by Brynch composed this work.
The real continuation of a Czech history, post holocaust becomes secondary, where really it is primary to the story. The reality of the film turns out not to be hypothetical, but a portrayal of actual events taking place.
This renders the political & devicive use of 'jewishness' more interesting than the cliche that it must all be about 'hollocaust' , because the film records the way jewishness was used & inhabitied history after the holocaust by successive governments to control populations.
The reality is just so much more interesting & complex, and also frees up films like this, so as to allow us to consider what communism was like & to open up discussions about the alternatives to capitalism that existed in 20th c .