“But that’s how it is and I’m grateful to him, and I just hope he will get some sort of attention.”ĭavid and Peter Sís in 'Dreams of Stray Cats' | Photo: Czech Televisionĭid you feel like you learned anything about yourself from the process? “So I just get through it and sometimes I’m surprised that this is what it looks like, how people would see me creating my books. “I find myself annoying and I don’t like my voice.
“And it’s hard for me to watch the film, because I think it’s just impossible for me to watch myself. “They were very creative in how we got around it, but I wish I could have taken them to the big publishing houses.
“I was upset when they came to New York to shoot – I didn’t realise that even if you make a documentary you have to pay certain fees to be able to shoot in New York, in certain buildings to meet certain people. “So there were these little minutia, these little nuances. “For him, he was a little boy, he knew about it, we were all staying in Munich and thinking, Should we go back? Should we go back? “The experience of 1968 was much more intense for me, because I was 19, 20 and it was probably the most life-changing experience of my life. “So explaining the experiences of being a young Pioneer during the ‘50s is different from somebody who was a young Pioneer 15 years later: then it was a little looser, or whatever. “1968 was probably the most life-changing experience of my life.” “He’s my brother, we love each other, we grew up together – but we both had different perspectives on things. “Because my brother is much younger, he’s 13 years younger. “But then we got into the details, and then in became difficult. “First of all it was fun, because you start with the things which are given, so you talk about how I grew up and the books which are most important to me. How was the experience of having your life story filmed by your own younger brother?
I discussed the film with its subject, whose latest book Nicky & Vera is coincidentally just now coming out in Czech.