A Thousand Hours of Bitterness for a Single Hour of Joy - Ivan Cankar

Ivan Cankar, the first Slovene professional writer, is the main character in this full feature documentary film. He was a public intellectual, who never remained silent. He liked to argue, insult people, spit, sometimes even on his own people. In most cases these actions were justified, as the people were ethically questionable. He was an eternal rebel, in eternal debts, constantly without money, he kept on borrowing, begging for payments, most often for books he had not written yet. He would sell his drawings and manuscripts to raise some money. He spent a lot of his money on drinks. And of course, there were women, fictitious and real. In literature he praised them, in life he felt contempt for them.He ran away from them, in the same way as he ran from his responsibilities.