Helena Třeštíková

René – The Prisoner of Freedom (2022)

The Czech criminal René is finding it difficult to go straight. Roaming from job to shelter, from woman to woman, he discovers that living honestly is a lot more difficult than just stealing something every once in a while. In 1989, filmmaker Helena Tře� ...

Anny (2021)

Anny follows the life of the titular, intriguing character for 16 years, from 1996 up until 2012. Living in the Czech Republic, Anny is a 46-year-old woman whose day-to-day life has consisted of several different occupations, from a bathroom attendant and ...

Ester (2021)

Karolína (2021)

Forman vs. Forman (2019)

A moving account, in his own words, of the personal life and work of the brilliant Czech filmmaker Miloš Forman (1932-2018): his tragic childhood, his major contribution to the cultural movement known as the Czech New Wave, his exile in Paris, his trouble ...

A Marriage Story (2017)

In 35 years of one couple's shared life, a lot of things happen: from the moments of an absolute harmony to the dramatic falls. For the most of the time, the couple cares for common daily life issues and joys that come together with raising the children, r ...

Doomed Beauty (2016)

Documentary film about Czech actress Lida Baarova, who fell in love with Joseph Goebbels in the 30s. ...

Mallory (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. ...

Vojta Lavička: Ups and Downs (2013)

Longitudinal documentary film was shot for past 16 years and the main protagonist is Roman musician and activist Vojta Lavička. Vojta is a master in violin play, who focuses not only on music but also deals with problems of his origin Roman nationality. V ...

Life with Jester (2013)

For 23 years, Helena Třeštíková followed the story of actor and stage director Jakub Špalek. The first piece of footage was shot in Autumn 1989 when Jakub, then a theatre academy student, was actively involved in the Velvet Revolution. Back then, Jaku ...

Private Universe (2012)

Honza was born in 1974 into the cheerless era of socialism in Czechoslovakia. At that time, his parents Jana and Petr lived in one room in the apartment of Jana's divorced mother and her widowed grandmother. A few years later, the family moved from Prague ...

Katka (2010)

"You bet on someone in the beginning of the process and then you wait and see what life does with them." This is how Czech director Helena Trestikova explains her long-term documentaries. Following on from the European Film Academy Award winning RENE (2008 ...

René (2008)

An intimate portrait of a man on the edge of society, filmed over the course of twenty years. ...

Marcela (2007)

The life of Marcela, an ordinary Czech woman is explored throughout several decades of her life. We are engaged to struggle and fight back with Marcela as her tragic life unfolds before our eyes especially when dealing with her daughter's unexpected death, ...

Hitler, Stalin and I (2001)

Heda Blochová was born in Prague into the Jewish family of the cofounder of the well-known Koh-i-noor factory. She married Rudolf Margolius, a lawyer. Soon after the wedding the young couple and the whole Margolius family were deported to the ghetto in Lo ...

Something Like Happiness (2000)

Lenka and Míra Hřib are a young married couple with two small children. They are both interested in ecology and sustainable life. ...

The Call (1999)

A documentary film following several years in the life of Jan Potměšil who has become a very popular actor at an early age, representing the type of a young sporty intellectual. After a serious car crash in 1989, he ended up on a wheelchair. He was 23 ye ...

Ten Years in the Life of a Young Man (1999)

An observational documentary about Jakub Špalek and all his activities, victories and losses in the years 1989 to 1999. ...

Tell Me Something About Yourself: Ripening of Evil - Milan (1997)

The Sweet Century (1997)

The twentieth century is sweeping through Central Europe. States, systems, governments, ideologies, and slogans are changing. No one born under the Austro-Hungarian Empire can be sure that they will live their lives according to their plans. Helena Třešt ...

Vyloučeni z literatury (1997)

Sladké hořkosti Lídy Baarové (1995)

Tell Me Something About Yourself - Láda (1994)

Lada is a product of "educational" or "corrective" institutions. Not only is he not educated or corrected, he simply does not understand anything about life. He solves his problems in his own way – by swallowing sharp objects. ...

Tell Me Something About Yourself - Martin (1994)

"The whole film talks about the time when I was first locked up, from sixteen till now, I'm 22 now, and during that whole time I was out maybe five months, and I've really had it by now. It's also about why I'd given my life to Jesus Christ and then failed ...

Kašpar (1993)

Tell Me Something About Yourself - Pavlína (1992)

Pavlina is a drug addict imprisoned, as well as her boyfriend, for illegal drug manufacturing. They meet again after the amnesty and the vicious circle of drugs starts rolling again. ...

Tell Me Something About Yourself - René (1992)

René has been in prison since he was 16. He is sick of life and doesn't care about his parents (just as René's parents never cared about him when he was a child); he doesn't even know how many more children they had. After the general amnesty, René just ...

Za mřížemi (1991)

Stvořil jsem tebe (1991)

Touching the Light (1979)

The hypnotic empathetic documentary about blind children features quotes from Jacques Lusseryan, who lost his sight as a child and used music by the blind Spanish composer Joaquín Rodrigo. ...

Hitler, Stalin and I (2001)

Heda Blochová was born in Prague into the Jewish family of the cofounder of the well-known Koh-i-noor factory. She married Rudolf Margolius, a lawyer. Soon after the wedding the young couple and the whole Margolius family were deported to the ghetto in Lo ...