15-06-2015

PRODUCTION: 8 Heads of Madness in Postproduction

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    8 Heads of Madness by Marta Novakova 8 Heads of Madness by Marta Novakova photo: www.8heads.com

    PRAGUE: Director/scriptwriter Marta Nováková is in postproduction with 8 Heads of Madness, a feature based on the life of the Russian poet Anna Alexandrovna Barkova (1901-1976), who spent 22 years in the Soviet Gulags.

    According to Marta Nováková, the film talks about “the eternal struggle of the artist against the outside world but also against his own demons and desires”, and it is “a cut through the desperate 20th century in a desperate country seen through the sympathetic and sensitive eyes of a poet”.

    Marta Nováková, who has worked on this project since 2008, started shooting in 2012. The postproduction is complicated and includes animated and pseudo-documentary sequences. Charismatic and popular Czech singer Anetta Langerova plays Anna Alexandrovna Barkova.

    Julietta Sichel is producing through 8 Heads Productions in coproduction with the Czech Television, CINEART TV Prague, i/o post, Michael Samuelson Lighting Prague and Moss & Roy.

    The budget is 767,543 EUR/ 21 m CZK. The Czech State Cinematography Fund´s grant is supporting.

    Production Information:

    8Heads Productions s.r.o.
    Bílkova 868/10
    110 00 Praha 1 
    Czech Republic
    Phone: +420 602 292 971
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    www.8heads.com

    Česká Televize
    Kavčí hory
    140 00 Praha 4
    Czech Republic
    Phone: +420 261 113 111
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    www.ceskatelevize.cz

    CINEART TV Prague
    Ke Hrádku 11
    14800 Praha 4
    Czech Republic
    Phone: +420 777 220 364
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    i/o post s.r.o.,
    Dienzenhoferovy sady 1,
    150 00 Praha 5
    Czech Republic
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    www.iopost.cz

    Michael Samuelson Lighting Prague s.r.o.
    Výtvarná 1023/4
    Praha 6 - Ruzyně
    Phone: +420 224 320 890
    Fax: +420 224 314 844
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    www.samuelson.cz

    MOSS & ROY s.r.o.
    V jámě 699/1
    110 00, Praha 1
    Phone.: +420 226 804 373
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    http://moss-roy.cz/

    Credits:
    Director: Marta Nováková
    Scriptwriter: Marta Nováková
    DoP: Lukáš Hyksa
    Cast: Aneta Langerová, Zuzana Fialová, Viktorie Čermáková, Marie Štípková, Luboš Veselý, Martin Sitta