The films of Helena Třeštíková
Helena Třeštíková is a Czech director and screenwriter born in Prague in 1949. She studied documentary filmmaking at the Prague Film Academy. She has been working as a filmmaker since the mid-1970s and has made over fifty documentary films focusing on human relationships and social issues. Over the years, she has specialized in documenting the lives of individuals over the long term. She spent many years working for Czech television, which financed her hit series Marriage Stories (1987), seven-year portraits of young married couples. During these years in television, Třeštíková developed an interest in female characters, creating several portraits of women with tragic lives. Her latest trilogy (Marcela, René, Katka), made in the late 2000s, brought her international recognition. Recently, Helena Trestikova's work has been the subject of retrospectives at major festivals and the Centre Pompidou. Since 2002, in parallel with her work as a filmmaker, Helena Třeštíková has been teaching filmmaking at FAMU. In 2007, she also briefly served as Minister of Culture in the Czech Republic.
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René
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With raw authenticity, the director records the luckless fate of René over a period of twenty years as he yo-yos between prison and freedom. The life of René, who successfully styles himself in the role of a desperado, unfolds against a backdrop of important political events occurring in the Czech Republic and beyond its borders.
Mallory
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Life hasn't been easy on Mallory but after the birth of her son she tries desperately to kick her drug habit, and to stop living on the street. She wants to turn her back on her dark past and help those she knows best - people on the fringes of society
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Honza was born in 1974 into the cheerless era of socialism in Czechoslovakia. At that time, his parents Jana and Petr lived in one room in the apartment of Jana’s divorced mother and her widowed grandmother. A few years later, the family moved from Prague to Liberec where Petr found a job and a little house for the family. When Honza was born, his father began writing a family chronicle and he ...
René
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With raw authenticity, the director records the luckless fate of René over a period of twenty years as he yo-yos between prison and freedom. The life of René, who successfully styles himself in the role of a desperado, unfolds against a backdrop of important political events occurring in the Czech Republic and beyond its borders.
Mallory
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Life hasn't been easy on Mallory but after the birth of her son she tries desperately to kick her drug habit, and to stop living on the street. She wants to turn her back on her dark past and help those she knows best - people on the fringes of society
Private Universe
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Honza was born in 1974 into the cheerless era of socialism in Czechoslovakia. At that time, his parents Jana and Petr lived in one room in the apartment of Jana’s divorced mother and her widowed grandmother. A few years later, the family moved from Prague to Liberec where Petr found a job and a little house for the family. When Honza was born, his father began writing a family chronicle and he ...
