Helena Třeštíková's Retrospective  

Another long-term portrait by Helena Třeštíková. Life has never pampered Mallory, and after the birth of her son she tries with all her might to kick her drug habit and stay off the street. One gloomy night on the bridge, where a famous actress donates her 2000 kroner, symbolically marks a new beginning. Yet the fight only begins. Her difficult social situation, upheavals in her personal relationships, and frustrating confrontations with the authorities often cast her back down to the bottom. However Mallory’s inner strength grows with each day without drugs, her unique sense of humor and combatant rocker’s character pushes her forward and her features start to resemble the ones of a hero.

 Awards

Karlovy Vary International Film Festival – BestDocumentary, 2015
Prix Europa (The EuropeanBroadcasting Festival) –SpecialCommendationsinBestEuropean TV Documentary, 2015

Helena Třeštíková

Helena Třeštíková graduated from the Department of Documentary Film at FAMU, Prague. Since 1974 she has worked as a professional documentary filmmaker, and has made around fifty documentary films of various lengths and formats, mostly on the themes of human relationships and various social issues. Later on she started to specialize on so called time-lapse documentaries – long term observation of people’s destiny. Since winter 2002 she became a professor at FAMU, Documentary department. She has recently started to closely cooperate with “Negativ Production”.

Selected filmography

The Miracle / Zázrak, 1975
Two Jubilees ofJan Zrzavý / Dve jubilea Jana Zrzavého, 1976
For Love / Z lásky, 1987
A Thousand Years of Sobriety / Tisíc lets trízlivosti, 1987
Marriage Stories / Manzelské etudy, 1987
Tell Me Something about Yourself, Rene / Řekni mi něco o sobě – René, 1992
Tell Me Something about Yourself, Lada / Řekni mi něco o sobě – Láďa, 1993
The Sweet Century / Sladkéstoletí, 1997
People, I Love You! / Lidé, mámvásrád!, 1998
Carmen Story, 1999
Women at theTurn of the Millennium / Zeny na prelomutisíciletí, 2001
Events of Pavel Stecha / Události Pavla Štechy, 2004

Married Couple’s Etudes after Twenty Years / Manzelské etudy po dvaceti letech, 2006
Marcela, 2007
Rene / René, 2008
Katka, 2011
Private Universe / Soukromý vesmír, 2012
Life with a Jester / Život s Kašparem, 2013
Mallory, 2015
Doomed Beauty / Zkáza krásou, 2015