8 Heads of Madness
2017•3.5•Released
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.
Director
Marta Nováková
Writer
Marta Nováková
Languages
Czech, Russian
Studio
MARFAFILM
Cast
Aneta Langerová
Anna Barkovová
Marie Štípková
Tamara Ivanovna
Zuzana Fialová
Valentina
Anna Sedláčková
Pavel Zedníček
Tomáš Jeřábek
Martin Sitta
Viktorie Čermáková
Miroslav Táborský
Sabina Remundová
Eva Leinweberová
Jaromír Dulava
Bogdanov
Luboš Veselý
Jiří Štrébl
Lukáš Jůza
Production
Company
MARFAFILM
Company
8Heads Productions
Company
Česká televize
Company
Cineart TV Prague
Company
Heyday
Company
Moss & Roy
Company
Q1 Film
Company
Michael Samuelson Lighting Prague
Company
Opona Studio
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