Obsessive Idea

Jiřina Pokorná / Czechoslovakia / 1971 / The film already had its Czech Premiere / 11 min.

synopsis

If only you knew what I'm going through, complains Stella Zázvorková as Mrs. Lapáčková in the doctor's waiting room. A television mystery feature based on an idea by journalist and novelist Lenka Hašková about a patient haunted by a mysterious number, humorously pointing out the high cost of medical treatment and citizens' responsibility to themselves and the state.

biography

Jiřina Pokorná (1932–2019), also known as Pokorná-Makoszová, was a director and screenwriter who focused on television productions for children and young people from the 1960s to the 1990s. She has thirty feature-length fairy tales and twenty-five fairy-tale series to her credit. These include the family comedy Žáku Kašíku, nežeň se! (Student Kašík, Don't Marry!, 1985) and the series Strom pohádek (The Fairy Tale Tree, 1987–1989).