8 Heads of Madness

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.

Cast

Aneta Langerová

Anna Barkovová

Marie Štípková

Tamara Ivanovna

Zuzana Fialová

Valentina

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Anna Sedláčková

Pavel Zedníček

Tomáš Jeřábek

Martin Sitta

Viktorie Čermáková

Miroslav Táborský

Sabina Remundová

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