A gradual relaxation of communist control in Czechoslovakia, whose first signs came from Slovakia, enabled the Bratislava journalist and writer Ladislav Mňačko to publish his novel "Death Is Called Engelchen" ("Smrť sa volá Engelchen", 1959) and Kadár and Klos to reach for it from Prague after their suspension was over. The novel and their film "Death is Called Engelchen" (, , 1963) spotlighted a new take on the massive pro-democratic Slovak revolt of 1944 that previously had been portrayed only as invariably glorious. It showed some of its aspects that brought about human tragedy.