From a now extinct world
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Josef Vavřín was born on 19 April 1927 in Dolní Bečva. He spent his childhood and youth in Kamenné, a remote pastoral settlement. During the Second World War he witnessed several public executions of resistance fighters in Dolní Bečva. In 1947 he moved to the border town of Hanušovice, where he worked as a trainee in the forests. After completing various courses and additional studies, he worked his way up from a trainee and assistant forester to an employee of the forest directorate in Hanušovice, where he worked as a clerk and then as a technician at the transport centre. All his life he worked in forests. He got to many remote and unknown places in the Hanušovice region and met the last inhabitants of now extinct settlements. In 1953 he married Hana Paulusová. Together they lived in a service apartment in Hanušovice, where they raised their three children Josef, Hana and Eva. At the time of filming in 2023, he was still living in Hanušovice.
