lvan Reitman Once Recalled the ‘Strangeness’ of Returning to Slovak Roots
Steven Gaydos Executive VP of ContentThis story was first published in Daily Variety in June 2001.The last time Ivan Reitman was near the Czech Republic, it was the middle of the night in 1960, outside the Slovakian town of his birth, Komárno. He was 3, and he and his Holocaust survivor parents were trying to get the hell away from Communist tyranny.It shouldn’t be a great shock, then, to learn that the director-producer isn’t completely at ease about the July 6 premiere of his “Evolution” at the Karlovy Vary film fest.His ambivalence is plain.