Jana Hádková

Czech Republic

Jana Hádková

script writer, director, producer, tv representative

There Is No Justice on Earth

The life journey of Oldřich Stránský, writer and head of the Union of Liberated Political Prisoners and Their Bereaved, who has experienced all the regimes of the 20th century. He will speak about the First Republic, the onset of Nazism, concentration camps, liberation, resettlement of German inhabitants, the Communist coup, Czechoslovakia's help to Israel, the following executions of the Jews by the Communists, the Prague Spring, the occupation by the Warsaw Pact and the Soviet Union, the Velvet Revolution and the compensation of forced labourers, the hiding of children deported to concentration camps as well as about contemporary neo-Nazism. His account will be worth listening to!






























Bloody Meeting in the North

In the 1950s and 1960s, some 200 000 tramps were listed in the files of the Czechoslovak Ministry of the Interior. The ministry elaborated an extensive program of their intimidation, suppression and provocation to anti-regime behaviour. The tramp movement was systematically dispersed and massacred by units of the ministry and the people's militias. The most infamous bloody intervention took place close to Jetřichovice in the Děčín region in 1963. However, the event cannot be excluded from its historical context; it was not a unique event but rather a demonstration of power of the totalitarian regime. The documentary is a pilot film of a Czech Television series. The realization of the documentary was financially supported by Václav Havel.

First Steps

The observational documentary introduces several young people who have left the children's home, trying to stand on their own feet. The film captures their encounters with their parents, crisis situations with their partners and friends as well as their visits to the children's homes where they seek advice of their former wardens. Lacking experience with family life as well as basic financial skills, they live in complicated partner relationships. They often seek support in gangs and communities which can lead them to the world of drugs, gambling and sects.
The film shows their dramatic lives as well as the problematic system of care. Leaving the children's homes, they are unprepared for many situations. The theme of responsibility for one's own life is a challenge to those who grew up in an institution as well as to those who grew up in a family. However, not everyone is as optimistic as Irena D. who says: "I know that if something goes wrong the world won't fall apart, I will do better next time..."

Landscape – Mirror of the Soul

The first documentary film in 3D. A film about wandering through the countryside that brings us to the doorstep of our soul.
Do we really believe that it is possible to stay healthy in the midst of broken families and a broken world? In the course of the film, Marek Orko Vácha explores the landscape, wandering like a Czech David Atenborough. He sets out at the end of winter/start of spring from the confluence of a river and a sea near a modern hotel. Pilgrim Orko cuts himself a walking staff and heads upstream towards the rising sun. He walks the barely waking land, lantern in hand, like a mighty prince. By the end of the film he reaches the start of all things, in the mountains, in the virgin forest of Boubín, at the river's fountainhead, clear and cleansing of waters, where a small village chapel and a simple wooden cross stand amid overgrown and abandoned trees. The sun sets on the first snowdrops peaking from the mossy banks in promise of the coming spring. The use of 3D photography here is essential to the portrayal of nature and the turning seasons. We want the viewers to experience a photorealistic vision of nature, drawing them inside our filmic landscape.

The Ticking Man

The Ticking Man project depicts the past, present and future of the hip hop band WWW; one of the most interesting art groups of the present and the near future. WWW is a unique phenomenon on the Czech music and cultural scene. Their first music video Nightmare introduced one of the first rap songs made in the Czech Republic. WWW is a mark of difference and originality.

Prague Outskirts Images

The main line of the film is an associative dreamy arranging of pictures: paintings, cartoons, photos, archive film shots as well as authentic fragments of the city outskirts shade into each other and create monochromatic portrait of the vanishing city of Prague.
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