Pavel Tigrid European (2004)
We cordially invite you to the screening of the film about Pavel Tigrid. After the screening, Kryštof Zeman, historian of the Museum of the Memory of the 20th Century, will debate with the director Helena Třeštíková.
The film screening with debate is organized by the House of Joy in cooperation with the Museum of Memory of the 20th Century.
29 May 2024 / 5:30 pm / Kino Přítomnost, Siwiecova 1, Prague 3
Admission 90 CZK
Pavel Tigrid European (2004)
The peripeteia of a life in the 20th century. Pavel Tigrid lived most of his life forcibly outside the borders of his homeland, but he never stopped working for it, thinking about it and commenting on the events that took place there. This unique documentary captures in a remarkable way all the twists and turns of his difficult life journey, which Tigrid talks about with wit and without sentimentality. Pavel Tigrid-Schönfeld, played by Helena Třeštíková, steps out of the usual cliché of the one-dimensional positive hero-anti-Communist. The director has managed to create a balanced portrait that does not avoid the ambiguities of the complex biography of the former collaborator of Václav Havel, Minister of Culture and publisher of the magazine SVĚDECTVÍ. The film was shot in the French countryside during the last days of his life.
Directed by Helena Třeštíková, Czech Republic 2004, 58 min.
Helena Třeštíková (*1949)
Writer, director and teacher. She graduated in documentary film directing at FAMU. Since 1974, she has made more than fifty documentary films, mostly about interpersonal relationships and various social problems. Her specific method is the so-called "collection filming" - tracking people's fates over a longer period of time. Her most famous such work is the six-part television series Manželské etudy (1987) and Manželské etudy po dvaceti letech (2005). Her time-lapse projects include the first part of the free time-lapse film series Women at the Turn of the Millennium, which she completed in 2001, and the trilogy Marcela (2006), René (2008) and Katka (2009). Her work also reflects pathological behaviour, such as drug addiction. Her films have won numerous awards. In January 2007, she was briefly Minister of Culture of the Czech Republic.
Helena Třeštíková and Kryštof Zeman at the Unbreakable and Sacrificed 2023 film festival, photo: Marta Myšková
