8 Heads of Madness

Czech Republic

• 2017-10-12(CZ)
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  Drama
• ▪ 0h-0m

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Overview

ANNA ALEXANDROVNA BARKOVA (1901-1976) Journalist and poet, meeting suspicious characters. Involved in immoral love affairs. Work in the Kremlin, fired. 1934 - Arrested, 5 years of penal servitude in Karaganda. Lived in Ukraine during the WWII. 1946 - Arrested, 5 years of penal servitude in the Komi Republic. 1956 - Rehabilitated, disability pension. 1957 - Arrested, 10 years of penal servitude. The film 8 Heads of Madness is about the eternal struggle between the artist and external circumstances, the artist and her demons and longings. 8 Heads of Madness is a drama woven from fragments of an appalling era. An unhappy cross-section of the 20th century in an unhappy country, as seen through the sensitive, perceptive vision of a poet.

• Marta NovákováDirector

  Jan LiškaFirst Assistant Director

  Ondřej SovíkAssistant Director

  Michal KoppAssistant Director

  Jaroslav ZderadičkaAssistant Director

  Lukáš DvořákAssistant Director