CinemaOSMovie · 2010 · 1h 30m

Katka

This is not a film about drug abuse, but a film about the replenishing power of life, about values and their price, about mothers and their relationship with their children.

66%(14)IMDbDocumentary

“You bet on someone in the beginning of the process and then you wait and see what life does with them.” This is how Czech director Helena Trestikova explains her long-term documentaries. Following on from the European Film Academy Award winning RENE (2008), Trestikova brings us KATKA – 14 years in the life of a drug addict. KATKA is an extraordinarily raw and uncensored character portrait of a troubled young woman living on the edge of human existence, desperately searching for love and salvation. Will she find it in the rehab? Will she find it in the arms of the man she loves? Or in the first cry of her long-desired baby? Tagging along with her through the back streets and squalors of Prague, Trestikova gets deep under the skin of a person most of us would cross the road to avoid, and shows us Katka’s profoundly human face. You might be angry with Katka, or your heart may go out to her. One thing is certain – you will never forget her.

Directed byHelena Třeštíková

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Status
Released
Runtime
1h 30m
Language
CS
Released
February 25, 2010
Studios
NegativČeská televize

Featuring

Cast & crew

1 credited
Starring

Kateřina Bradáčová

Kateřina Bradáčová

Creative team
Directed by
Helena Třeštíková
Helena Třeštíková
Written by
Helena Třeštíková
Helena Třeštíková
Produced by
Kateřina Černá
Pavel Strnad

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