Batalives: Baťovské životy

During the 1920s Tomáš Baťa began to build a completely new towns in the neighbourhood of his factories around the world to be able to successfully expand with his company. In the next few decades, he and his brother J.A. Baťa founded more than thirty satellites with unique social and architectural model. Only a few of them have been preserved until nowadays. The documentary film presents the past and present of this project in five selected Bata's towns through the stories of people who live in them today. In the Dutch Batadorp, Indian Batanagar, Brazilian Bataiporã, Croatian Borovo, and also in Zlín, where it all started 80 years ago. What did the dream of golden future based on one idea of two ingenious megalomaniacs turned into after more than 80 years? (Dokweb.net)