Archive of films Mallory / Mallory

Czech Republic
2015, 97 min

Section: Documentary Films - Competition
Year: 2015

Life hasn’t been easy on Mallory but after the birth of her son she tries desperately to kick her drug habit, and to stop living on the street. She wants to turn her back on her dark past and help those she knows best – people on the fringes of society. In her latest long-term documentary, Helena Třeštíková demonstrates that even seemingly hopeless lives needn’t be cut short halfway.


Synopsis

After previous documentaries in which she set down the dramatic reversals and hard falls in the lives of Marcela, René, and Katka, Helena Třeštíková has come out with a new long-term portrait. 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. As is usually the case, the helping hand that succeeded in leading her away from life’s dark corners came from an entirely unexpected source. But even after Mallory’s partial victory the fight isn’t yet over. The deep wound self-inflicted by drugs continues to fester: her difficult social situation, upheavals in her personal relationships, and frustrating confrontations with the authorities often cast her back down to the bottom. This is the story of a woman who wants to turn her back on her shady past and help those she knows best (people on the fringes of society), and it demonstrates that even a seemingly hopeless life needn’t be cut short halfway.

Martin Horyna

About the director

Helena Třeštíková

Helena Třeštíková (b. 1949, Prague) studied direction at FAMU (1974). She started making long-term documentaries back in 1972 with her school film Viva Acqua. She has made over 40 documentaries, including Sweet Century (1998 – Best Documentary at KVIFF) and Women at the Turn of the Millennium (Trapped) (2001 – Special Jury Mention at KVIFF). Her long-term series of films Tell Me Something about Yourself (beginning 1989) and Marriage Stories (1987-2006) combine aspects of film sociology with cinéma vérité approaches. The Karlovy Vary festival presented a loose portrait trilogy of people living on the fringes of society: Marcela (2006), René (2008 – Prix Arte from the European Film Academy for Best European Documentary), and Katka (2010), as well as her most time-intensive project to date, Private Universe (2011 – Special Mention at KVIFF), shot over a period of 37 years.

Contacts

Negativ
Ostrovní 30, 110 00, Praha 1
Czech Republic
Tel: +420 777 697 543, +420 224 933 755
Fax: +420 224 933 472
E-mail: [email protected]
www: www.negativ.cz

Aerofilms
Milady Horákové 383/79, 170 00, Praha 7
Czech Republic
Tel: +420 224 947 566
E-mail: [email protected]
www: www.aerofilms.cz

About the film

Color, DCP
World premiere

Section: Documentary Films - Competition
   
Director: Helena Třeštíková
Screenplay: Helena Třeštíková
Dir. of Photography: Miroslav Souček, Vlastimil Hamerník, Robert Novák, David Cysař, Jiří Chod, Jakub Hejna
Music: Tadeáš Věrčák
Editor: Jakub Hejna
Producer: Kateřina Černá, Pavel Strnad
Production: Negativ s.r.o.
Coproduction: Česká televize
Sales: Negativ
Distributor: Aerofilms

Guests

Helena Třeštíková

Pavel Strnad

Producer


Kateřina Černá

Producer

Zuzana Bielikova

Film Institution Rep., PR & Marketing


David Cysař

Director of Photography

Mallory Neradová

Protagonist


Vlastimil Hamerník

Director of Photography

Jakub Hejna

Film Director, Film Editor


Zuzana Pudilová

Distributor

Ivo Andrle

Distributor


Radim Habartík

Distributor

Zuzana Kameníková

Cinema Representative, Cinema Representative


Jan Noháč

Distributor

Radka Urbancová

Cinema Representative, Distributor, PR & Marketing


Jakub Němeček

Distributor, Other

Anna Lísalová

Distributor


Zuzana Raušová

Cinema Representative, Distributor, PR & Marketing

Petr Oukropec

Film Director, Producer


Milan Kuchynka

Producer

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