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."

Feb 25 2010 N/A 1h 30m
Biography, Documentary, Drama

“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.

Plot

Helena Trestikova is the author of 10 episodes from the series Women on the Brink of the New Millennium, intimate portraits of both successful women and women on the social periphery. The tragic story of a girl named Katka who believes that joy and happiness can be applied through a hypodermic needle. All she is left with is despair. We first meet Katka at a rehab clinic in Nemcice, still full of optimism and faith in a drug-free future. The film tries to draw attention to the drug problem from a somewhat different point of view.

Written by

Helena Trestíková

Directed by

Helena Trestíková

Cast

N/A

Production Countries

Czech Republic

Production Companies

Negativ, Ceská televize

Languages

Ceský

Awards

2 wins

Scores
# of Votes
344
Average Rating
7.6 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
NA