8 Heads of Madness
12/10/2017
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.
Movie Information
Aneta Langerová
as Anna Barkovová
Marie Štípková
as Tamara Ivanovna
Zuzana Fialová
as Valentina
Anna Sedláčková
as
Pavel Zedníček
as
Tomáš Jeřábek
as
Martin Sitta
as
Viktorie Čermáková
as
Miroslav Táborský
as
Sabina Remundová
as
Eva Leinweberová
as
Jaromír Dulava
as Bogdanov
Luboš Veselý
as
Jiří Štrébl
as
Lukáš Jůza
as
Martin Veliký
as
Filip Rajmont
as
Peter Varga
as
Ladislav Veselý
as
Ondřej Bauer
as
Miloslav Mejzlík
as J. V. Stalin (voice)
