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.

Cast

Aneta Langerová Anna Barkovová Marie Štípková Tamara Ivanovna Zuzana Fialová Valentina

Anna Sedláčková

Pavel Zedníček Tomáš Jeřábek Martin Sitta Viktorie Čermáková Miroslav Táborský Sabina Remundová Eva Leinweberová Jaromír Dulava Bogdanov

Metadata from the source database.