Czech Journal: Don’t Take My Life

synopsis

One day, documentary filmmaker Andrea Culková learned that she faced attachment of assets because of a minor error that she learned about too late. She thus became one of the many people to find themselves caught in a debt trap. In her contribution to the Czech Journalseries, Culková delves into an examination of the phenomenon of debt, debt recovery, and debt payments in Czech society from a personal as well as investigative viewpoint. She interviews various actors in the field, from debtors to the Minister of Justice, attends conferences of debt collectors, and explores how the issue is addressed in other countries.

"You can’t just take my film from me!!!!"

biography

FAMU graduate Andrea Culková (1977) has shot numerous documentaries, including Beautiful Prague to Become Olympic? (2007, Jihlava 2007) about plans to hold the Olympic Games in Prague; Sugar Blues (2014, Jihlava 2015), which explored the relationship between sugar and human civilization; and Art detektivka (2015), a portrait of artists Milada Součková and Zdeněk Rykr. She has also contributed to the television series Celnice (2013) and Rok jinak (2015).

more about film