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Article: Telling the story of a brutal time: priest films documentary about Christians in communist Czechoslovakia. (World).
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- January 25, 2002
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The work that has occupied filmmaker Ken Gumbert for the past nine months and which he hopes will occupy him for years in the future began with a casual conversation at Providence College, where Gumbert, a Dominican priest, teaches film. Gumbert was chatting with a Dominican from Slovakia, who mentioned he had become a priest secretly in the 1980s.
"It hadn't occurred to me that it was illegal in Europe to become a priest, and I thought that was fascinating and a story I wanted to explore on film," said Gumbert, who came to Europe in the fall of 2000 with an equipment grant from Providence College, another grant from the Western Dominican Province, and a zeal to ...