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Section: International Competition of European First Films
I, Olga Hepnarova (2016)
Olga is a complex young woman desperate to break free from her unfeeling family and social conventions. With her Louise Brooks-like tomboyish looks she drags herself from one job to another until she finds her niche as a truck driver. Although she has female lovers, she doesn’t form any bonds with them; instead she clashes, time and again, venting herself in wordless emotional outbursts and other behavioural extremes. This black-and-white film tells the story of the short life of an exceptionally lonely young woman who turns into a mass murderer when, on 10 July 1973 – at the age of 22 – she drives a rented truck into a group of people, killing eight.
| Country | Czech Republic, Poland, France, Slovak Republic |
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| Year | 2016 |
| Duration | 105 min |
| Rating | 16 |
| Language | Czech |
| Subtitle | English |
| Directed by | Tomáš Weinreb, Petr Kazda |
| Screenplay | Petr Kazda, Tomáš Weinreb |
| Director of Photography | Adam Sikora |
| Edited by | Vojtěch Frič |
| Contact | FRAME100R/love.FRAME/first.FRAME |
Biography
Tomáš Weinreb (1982) and Petr Kazda (1978) are Czech filmmakers. Both attended film school in Pisek and at Prague's FAMU, where Weinreb studied documentary filmmaking and Kazda screenwriting. They founded the production company Black Balance, where they've made short and documentary films, e.g. Eclipse (Zatmění, 2006), Me (Já, 2009), Everything is Crap (Všechno je sračka, 2009) and Play Off (2012). They are jointly making their feature film debut with the drama I, Olga Hepnarová (Já, Olga Hepnarová, 2016).