After many years of work, Eastern Illuminations has finally premiered on the 23rd Kino na Granicy / Kino na Hranici / Cinema on the border Film Festival in Cieszyn / Cesky Tesin .

This exceptional documentary directed, filmed and produced by Zuzka Markova was a labour of love and passion for Eastern European Cinema.

Milos Forman, Agnieszka Holland, Márta Mészáros, Andrzej Wajda, Kalory Makk, Jiri Menzel, Daniel Olbrychski, Juraj Jakubisko and many many more gave unique interviews about their way of making films during communist regime; dealing with communist party rule, Russian dictate, political turmoils and censorship.

Made with help of the Visegrad Fund the film is important to learn about history and cinema, but also to remind ourself how important democracy and freedom are.