Lupus Pictures – The Red Reformatory: The Teddy Bear

Again we have an opportunity to see a movie by Lupus Pictures; which is now set in the period of totalitarian power of communism. After the successful trilogy Stalin I, II and III and the related movie “Too Many Fathers”, we’re coming with a pilot episode of a new series named “Red Reformatory”. After 1948, when the communists – with heavy support of Moscow – took over Czechoslovakia, they didn’t hesitate to punish their opponents mercilessly. Some of the dissenters ended up executed or imprisoned; most of them in labor camps. And what about their teens? The first episode of Red Reformatory series, titled “The Teddy Bear” brings us to a kind of institution where the communists tried to re-educate, or at least isolate teens of the imprisoned or put-away parents. These institutions had different names – Youth Homes or various educational youth institutes; and these all represented the youth’s nightmare that time.