KATKA
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Countries
Duration 90 min
Synopsis
“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 Academy Award winning RENE (2008), Trestikova brings us KATKA – 13 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 rehab? Will she find it in the arms of the man she loves? Or in the first cry of her long-desired child? Tagging along with her through the back streets and squalor 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. Your heart might go out to her, or you might be angry with Katka. One thing is certain – you will never forget her.
“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 Academy Award winning RENE (2008), Trestikova brings us KATKA – 13 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 rehab? Will she find it in the arms of the man she loves? Or in the first cry of her long-desired child? Tagging along with her through the back streets and squalor 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. Your heart might go out to her, or you might be angry with Katka. One thing is certain – you will never forget her.