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Markéta Wants Her Bag

Czech Films 2017–2018 2018 / Markéta chce taštičku / Czech Republic 2018

Markétka is happy when she can talk, paint, or ride the bus. The 16-year-old girl suffers from Rett syndrome, and thus her mental capacity is that of a two-year-old. Documentarist Miroslav Janek looks once again with empathy at the world of people who are “other” and at those closest to them who are tasked with contemplating their future.

Markéta Wants Her Bag Markéta Wants Her Bag

Synopsis

Sixteen-year-old Markétka loves candy and bubble stuff, which she carries in her little bag. She likes riding around Prague because she thinks buses and trams are fun. And she paints. The girl suffers from Rett syndrome, and thus her mental capacity is that of a two-year-old. Markétka was originally to have been cast in Normal Autistic Film (2016), but documentarist Miroslav Janek decided to devote a short film exclusively to her; his everyday observations reveal a life with a very difficult intellectual disability. Markétka’s family battles their formidable fate with admirable finesse and humor. At the same time, however, they reflect on how the girl’s future will affect those closest to her, including her little sister.

Jan Škoda

About the film

37 min / Color, DCP
World premiere

Director Miroslav Janek / Screenplay Miroslav Janek / Dir. of Photography Miroslav Janek / Editor Tonička Janková / Producer Jan Macola / Production Mimesis Film s.r.o. / Coproduction MAT FILM RESORT / Contact Mimesis Film / Distributor Pilot Film

About the director

Miroslav Janek

Miroslav Janek (b. 1954, Náchod, Czechoslovakia). Selected filmography: The Unseen (1996), Battle for Life (2000), Crimson Sails (2001), Kha-chee-pae (2005), Citizen Havel (2008), The Confessions of Kateryna K. (2008), Burning (2012), Olga (2014), The Gospel According to Brabenec (2014), Film Spa (2015), Normal Autistic Film (2016), Universum Brdečka (2017)

Contacts

Pilot Film
Donská 168/19, 101 00, Praha
Czech Republic
Phone: +420 724 938 883
E-mail: [email protected]

Mimesis Film
Donská 168/19, 10100, Praha
Czech Republic
E-mail: [email protected]

Guests

Jan Macola
Cinema Representative, Distributor, Producer

Miroslav Janek
Film Director

Markéta Rybaříková
Protagonist

Michal Roškaňuk
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