8 Heads of Madness (2017)

ANNA ALEXANDROVNA BARKOVA (1901-1976) Journalist and poet, meeting suspicious characters. Involved in immoral love affairs. Work in the Kremlin, fired. 1934 - Arrested, 5 years of penal servitude in Karaganda. Lived in Ukraine during the WWII. 1946 - Arrested, 5 years of penal servitude in the Komi Republic. 1956 - Rehabilitated, disability pension. 1957 - Arrested, 10 years of penal servitude. The film 8 Heads of Madness is about the eternal struggle between the artist and external circumstances, the artist and her demons and longings. 8 Heads of Madness is a drama woven from fragments of an appalling era. An unhappy cross-section of the 20th century in an unhappy country, as seen through the sensitive, perceptive vision of a poet.

Released Oct. 12, 2017 107 min None+

Genres: Animation, Biography, Comedy, Drama

Keywords: tmdb.biography, tmdb.historical, imdb.park, imdb.russian-writer, imdb.surrealism, imdb.czech-surrealism, imdb.multiple-outcomes + 28 more, imdb.repeated-scene, imdb.breaking-the-fourth-wall, imdb.animated-sequence, imdb.reference-to-joseph-stalin, imdb.telephone-call, imdb.reference-to-devil, imdb.mausoleum, imdb.absurdity, imdb.humiliation, imdb.nonlinear-timeline, imdb.poet, imdb.russian-poet, imdb.gulag, imdb.gay, imdb.lesbian, imdb.title-directed-by-female, imdb.poet-as-protagonist, imdb.writer-as-protagonist, imdb.reference-to-anna-barkova, imdb.f-rated, imdb.female-protagonist, imdb.based-on-real-person, imdb.writer, imdb.1920s, imdb.year-1921, imdb.russia, imdb.female-poet, imdb.based-on-true-story