It was about the big peasants, the big pigsties, the cattle, everything
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Evžena Mikulková, surname Hupšilová, was born on June 16, 1933 in Hrubčice. In this village in Haná, she experienced the passage of the front at the end of the war, during which five local inhabitants paid with their lives. In Hrubčice, she also witnessed the collectivisation in which six peasants were sentenced to prison and four families were evicted from their homes in politically motivated trials. In 1952 she married Stanislav Mikulka. Her husband worked in the construction industry and as part of the settlement of the border region they moved to Šumperk, a town inhabited by Germans before the war. Their daughter Stanislava was born there in 1952 and six years later their son Evžen. In Šumperk she joined the District Agricultural Investment Preparation Centre, where she worked as a typist until her retirement. At the time of filming in 2024, she was still living in Šumperk.
