I, Olga Hepnarová / Já, Olga Hepnarová
Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, France 2016

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directed by Tomáš Weinreb & Petr Kazda, drama, 105 min, eng subtitles written by Tomáš Weinreb and Petr Kazda
with Michalina Olszańska, Martin Pechlát, Klára Melíšková, Marika Šoposká

Saturday 15.10.2016 - 20.00, Cinématheque

Olga Hepnarová was a young, lonely lesbian outsider, from a cold-hearted family, who couldn’t play the part society desired of her. Her paranoid self-examination and inability to connect with other people eventually drove her over the edge of humanity when she was only twenty-two years old. Hepnarová was the last woman to be executed in Czechoslovakia. The film shows the human being behind the mass murderer without glorifying or downplaying the terrible crime she committed. Guided by her letters we delve into Olga’s psyche and witness the worsening of her loneliness and alienation as we reconstruct the events that led up to her disastrous actions. Although the story is set in the 1970s, young people worldwide today still face problems of not belonging, of being different, and of being bullied because of race, gender or sexual orientation. The opening film of Berlinale Panorama 2016.

Awards:
Sofia IFF 2016 (Best Director)
Vilnius IFF 2016 (Best Film)
Berlin IFF 2016 

Olga Hepnarová was a young, lonely lesbian outsider, from a cold-hearted family, who couldn’t play the part society desired of her. Her paranoid self-examination and inability to connect with other people eventually drove her over the edge of humanity when she was only twenty-two years old. Hepnarová was the last woman to be executed in Czechoslovakia.

The film shows the human being behind the mass murderer without glorifying or downplaying the terrible crime she committed. Guided by her letters we delve into Olga’s psyche and witness the worsening of her loneliness and alienation as we reconstruct the events that led up to her disastrous actions. Although the story is set in the 1970s, young people worldwide today still face problems of not belonging, of being different, and of being bullied because of race, gender or sexual orientation. The opening film of Berlinale Panorama 2016.

Prix:
Sofia IFF 2016 (Meilleur realisateur)
Vilnius IFF 2016 (Meilleur Film)
Berlin IFF 2016 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNtGNNfCDKc http://nobodylikesmethefilm.tumblr.com/ http://cineuropa.org/ff.aspx?t=ffocus&l=en&did=304704 http://cineuropa.org/ff.aspx?t=ffocusinterview&l=en&tid=2935&did=305273 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGy00MbFZXQ