synopsis
An intimate portrait of a director who almost involuntarily devoted her life to film, and who was willing to sacrifice three marriages and motherhood to the cult filmmaking. The film portrays Drahomíra Vihanová as a hard-headed shaman of images who shares her religion from its early days of being damned by the regime for Zabitá neděle (Squandered Sunday, 1969) to the public execution of Zpráva o putování studentů Petra a Jakuba (The Pilgrimage of Students Peter and Jacob, 2002). An existential essay that, in contradictions and paradoxes, fluctuates between documentary and acted film, between adoration, forgetting, and cats.
film details
| director: | Miroslav Janek |
| producer: | Richard Němec, Petr Morávek |
contact
Verbascum, s.r.o.
Richard Němec
Černá 6, 110 00
Prague 1
Czech Republic
+420 605 57 57 57
verbascum@email.cz
Film at festival
| premiere type: | Czech Premiere |
| festival edition: | 2012 |
| section: | Czech Joy |
| language: | Czech |
| colour: | Colour and B&W |
Info
| director: | Miroslav Janek |
| original title: | Umanutá |
| country: | Czech Republic |
| year: | 2012 |
| running time: | 57 min. |
