Karel Kovanda: Struggle for the conscience of the UN

The newly independent Czech Republic was admitted to the UN Security Council in October 1993. From this position, already in the spring of the following year, the Czech diplomacy under the leadership of Ambassador Karel Kovanda faced an unprecedented challenge: how should the international community react to the unprecedentedly rapid mass killing of the ethnic minority Tutsi by the majority Hutu in a small African country? While the world was silent, Kovanda formulated a prompt response for the Czech delegation.
In the film, the functioning of the UN and behind-the-scenes meetings, of which there are no records, were reconstructed, according to Karel Kovanda's memory, with the help of participants in the so-called MUN (Model United Nations), a debating competition in which high school and university students become representatives of certain nations in the UN and they imitate the proceedings of the Security Council.

Cast: Members of the Prague Student Summit Secretariat
Director: Jan Strejcovský
Screenplay: Improvisation, Jan Strejcovský
Production: Jakub Mahler
Editor: Michal BOhmm
Sound: Petr Kolev, Václav Kopelec, Juras Karaka
Role: Argentine Ambassador Emílio Cárdenas

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