A new time-lapse documentary maps the life story of an aging prostitute – G.cz

Helena Třeštíková’s new film is going to cinemas

Director Helena Třeštíková is going to release her new time-consuming documentary Anna, the story of an aging prostitute whose life Třeštíková has been following for sixteen years. Anny lives on a social bottom. Since the end of the raw nineties, the film has been watching her backdrop to the night streets of Prague and public toilets, yet she herself never loses her human dignity, humor or faith in happiness.

“I got into Perlovka for business by pure chance. My husband and I broke up and went for coffee. There I met a lady, we had a shot, so she told me that she goes to earn extra money. He says, ‘Would you like to stay here with me? ‘So I started going there. I was less than 46, “he says in the film Anna.

Anny is never at the bottom. She has three grown-up children, is twice divorced and works as a toilet worker. At the age of 46, he wants to improve on his grandchildren at Christmas, which is why he voluntarily sets out on a career as a casual street prostitute. Anna’s film captures the story of a quirky woman who always sees heaven rather than bottom. He seeks love, resists bad luck and disease, but takes all his life’s difficulties with nuclear humor and practical insight. He never intends to whine. In addition, he gets to know the company Rozkoš bez rizika, which helps prostitutes on the street and plays original theatrical plays with them, in which Anna finds her other talent.

“Anny never gives up. He can always take care of himself, find a job. He knows he’s in the lowest strata of society, but he’s not whining. She works on the toilets, and so she can step on her grandchildren for Christmas. She is an absolute realist. But the desire to find a way out of the problem, not to succumb to depression? I really appreciate that, “says Helena Třeštíková about her heroine.

The film had its world premiere in the autumn at one of the largest and most prestigious IDFA documentary film festivals in Amsterdam, and at the end of March it also won the Special Jury Prize at the Sofia Film Festival.

Helena Třeštíková began watching Anna in 1996 as part of the comprehensive film “Pleasure without Risk” about Prague prostitutes. After its release on Czech Television, she returned to Anna and filmed with her for another ten years.

Helena Třeštíková’s most famous projects include films Katka, Mallory, series Marital etudes a René, for which the director won the European Film Academy award known as the “European Oscar”.