8 Heads of Madness
8 hlav šílenství
Release: 2017-10-12
·★ 3.5
Drama
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.
Production Countries
Czech Republic
Slovakia
Production Companies
MARFAFILM
8Heads Productions
Česká televize
Cineart TV Prague
Heyday
Moss & Roy
Q1 Film
Michael Samuelson Lighting Prague
Opona Studio
Cast
Miroslav Táborský
Luboš Veselý
Miloslav Mejzlík
as J. V. Stalin (voice)
Marie Štípková
as Tamara Ivanovna
Jaromír Dulava
as Bogdanov
Lukáš Jůza
Aneta Langerová
as Anna Barkovová
Zuzana Fialová
as Valentina
Tomáš Jeřábek
Eva Leinweberová
Jiří Štrébl
Filip Rajmont
Ondřej Bauer
Pavel Zedníček
Martin Sitta
Sabina Remundová
Peter Varga
