“To commit suicide you need a strong will, something you certainly don’t have,” the true-life title character of “I, Olga Hepnarova” is told by her mother at the outset of this fearsomely tough-minded ...

Petr Kazda and Tomás Weinreb’s first feature is a blow-by-blow dramatization in black-and-white of what led twenty-year-old Olga Hepnarová to rent a truck on July 10, 1973, and plow into twenty people ...

Petr Kazda and Tomas Weinreb’s film “I, Olga Hepnarova” tells the true story of the shocking crimes of Olga Hepnarova, a young Czech woman who murdered eight people in 1973. The film shows Hepnarova ...

Raised in a strict family environment in Prague, alienated, bullied, timid-by-nature, friendless, troubled child Olga Hepnarová nurtures a raging hatred towards an indifferent, faceless society. Under ...

"My verdict is: I, Olga Hepnarová, the victim of your bestiality, sentence you to death penalty." Those were the famous words of a 22-year-old mass murderer, who in 1973 drove a truck into a group of ...

In 1973, a 22-year-old Czech woman named Olga Hepnarová drove a truck down a crowded street in Prague, killing eight people. This austere docudrama by writer-directors Petr Kazda and Tomaš Weinreb ...

Czech filmmakers Tomáš Weinreb and Petr Kazda, who debuted with the biopic drama I, Olga Hepnarova [+ ], are currently shooting a follow-up project under the title Nobody Likes Me [+ ]. Similarly to ...

Freshmen Tomas Weinreb and Petr Kazda helm a steady, solemn biopic of the last woman sentenced to death in Czechoslovakia. “To commit suicide you need a strong will, something you certainly don’t have ...

This Berlinale world premiere dramatizes the real story of a mentally fragile young woman who became a cold-blooded killer. By Stephen Dalton A true story of mental illness and mass murder in 1970s ...