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8 Heads of Madness(2017)
Status: Released
Date: 2017-10-12
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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.
Languages: Czech, Russian.
Countries:
Czech Republic,
Slovakia
ProductionCompanies: 
MARFAFILM
8Heads Productions
Cineart TV Prague
Heyday
Moss & Roy
Q1 Film
Michael Samuelson Lighting Prague
Opona Studio
Movie: 8 Heads of Madness
Top 10 Billed Cast
Aneta Langerová
Anna Barkovová
Marie Štípková
Tamara Ivanovna
Zuzana Fialová
Valentina
Pavel Zedníček
Tomáš Jeřábek
Martin Sitta
Miroslav Táborský
Sabina Remundová
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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.
Release Date
2017-10-12
Average
4.8
Rating:
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