I, Olga Hepnarová (2016)

Original title

Já, Olga Hepnarová

Directed by

Petr Kazda, Tomáš Weinreb

Genre

drama film, biographical film, historical film, LGBTQ-related film

Country

Slovakia, Czech Republic, France, Poland

Runtime

1h 45m

Rated

R

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 65 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Czech woman withdraws from society and eventually commits a violent act with a truck. The film follows her life leading up to that event.

somberdeliberateintrospectivecolddetachedunsettlingbiographicalabsorbing

What happens

I, Olga Hepnarová (Czech: Já, Olga Hepnarová) is a 2016 internationally co-produced drama film, directed by Tomáš Weinreb and Petr Kazda, about Olga Hepnarová (1951–1975). She was a Czech mass murderer, who on 10 July 1973, killed eight people with a truck in Prague, Czechoslovakia. The film was shown in the Panorama section at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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