2016 ‘Já, Olga Hepnarová’ Directed by Petr Kazda, Tomáš Weinreb
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, chain-smoking, from one job to another until she appears to find her niche as a truck driver. Although she has female lovers she does not form a bond with any of them; instead she clashes, time and again, venting herself in wordless emotional outbursts and other behavioural extremes.
Michalina Olszańska Martin Pechlát Klára Melíšková Marika Šoposká Juraj Nvota Martin Finger Jan Novotný Ondřej Malý Marta Mazurek Zuzana Stavná Malwina Turek Gabriela Míčová Viktor Vrabec Ivan Palúch Roman Zach Lena Schimscheiner Lukáš Bech Błażej Wójcik Magdaléna Borová Petra Nesvačilová Martina Eliášová Gustav Hašek Małgorzata Gorol Natalia Sikora
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Moi, Olga, Ja, Olga Hepnarova, I, Olga Hepnarova, Yo, Olga Hepnarová, Я, Ольга Гепнарова, Eu, Olga Hepnarová, ഐ, ഓൾഗ ഹെപ്പർനോവ, Yo, olga, historia de una asesina, Аз, Олга Хепнарова, Εγώ, η Όλγα, 我是欧嘉
Canada
Fantasia International Film Festival
Czechia
Slovakia
France
UK
Brazil
GreeceΚ-18
Brazil
Canada
Czechia
France
Greece
Slovakia
UK
my depression is especially bad now so it was probably the wrong time to watch this but also: Big Depressed Lesbian Mood
this was mathilda 8 years after her separation with leon in leon: the professional (1994)
i thought this was a lesbian coming of age film i didn't realise it was a biopic about a mass murderer
Olga is such an odd character, her shoulders slouched, eyes underneath dark bangs darting suspiciously, her walk a stiff legged pivot. She's shy and timid, ever calculating and shut in inside of herself. To find out afterwards that this is a historical figure is impressive due to the definition they gave her existence. I went in blind so what can be chalked up to untreated mental illness kind of felt like a gray area that maybe deserved interpretation. That was a fool's errand.
What we're left with is a character study handled with such kindness and consideration that you can't help but to pity the perpetrator as much as the victims. Yes, Olga was a victim as well. Perhaps not to the people she assigned blame, definitely not to those on which she took revenge, but at the very least to inner demons and the institutions that failed her.
