Helena Třeštíková's iconic long-term documentaries

The filmography of the renowned Czech director Helena Třeštíková, who has won numerous international awards, includes more than 50 documentaries. Since the mid-1970s, she has created unobtrusive yet impressive portraits for cinema and television - often long-term observations - of married couples, personalities from Czech history and, time and again, social outsiders. Třeštíková's impressive work is about human relationships, social and political changes, and not least about the opportunites and limitations of the documentary form. “Every life is interesting enough to produce a story. Literature and film have known this for a long time. The risk is that the protagonist’s story will not be captured" (Helena Třeštíková in The Guardian). All of the documentaries (except "Katka") can now be streamed on myfilmfriend in their original language with English subtitles.