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RENE

By Helena TRESTIKOVA

TASKOVSKI FILMS - as SALES All rights, World

Documentary - Completed 2008

- Year of production
- 2008
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- CZECH REPUBLIC
- Languages
- CZECH
- Duration
- 83 mn
- Director(s)
- Helena TRESTIKOVA
- Producer(s)
- Katerina CERNA (Negativ Films)
- Synopsis
- “Why has my shitty life turned out like this? No-one knows. Not even God. God’s on holiday and he’s reading porn” – an excerpt from Diary of the Forgotten, the journal kept by the main protagonist in another of Helena Třeštíková’s long-term documentaries. With raw authenticity, the director records the luckless fate of René over a period of twenty years as he yo-yos between prison and freedom. The life of René, who successfully styles himself in the role of a desperado, unfolds against a backdrop of important political events occurring in the Czech Republic and beyond its borders. The Velvet Revolution, the presidential election, 9/11 and the Czech Republic’s accession to the EU – all this is “digested” by René, mostly from the confines of various prisons.