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8 Heads of Madness (2017)
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8 Heads of Madness (2017)
Original name: 8 hlav šílenství
Genre: Animation, Biography, Comedy, Drama, History
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 107 min.
Story: 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.
Style: non-linear, tense, captivating, touching, suspense, suspenseful, exciting, queer cinema
Plot: gulag, humiliation, strong female lead, writers, female protagonist, surrealism, gay lead character, strong female character, breaking the fourth wall, biopic, lesbian, gay, poet, telephone call, gay interest, repeated scene, multiple outcomes, mausoleum, park, gay protagonist
Time: 1920s
Place: russia

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