8 Heads of Madness

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.

• Marta NovákováDirector
• Marta NovákováScreenplay
• Vladivojna La ChiaOriginal Music Composer

• Aneta LangerováAnna Barkovová
• Marie ŠtípkováTamara Ivanovna
• Zuzana FialováValentina
• Anna SedláčkováCast
• Pavel ZedníčekCast
• Tomáš JeřábekCast
• Martin SittaCast
• Viktorie ČermákováCast
• Miroslav TáborskýCast
• Sabina RemundováCast
• Eva LeinweberováCast
• Jaromír DulavaBogdanov