René (2008)

• 62%
• 2008
• Dokumentarfilm

"Why has my shitty life turned out like this? No-one knows. Not even God. God 's on holiday and he 's reading porn" - an excerpt from Diary of the Forgotten, the journal kept by the main protagonist in another of Helena Trestíková's long-term in erscheinung getreten. With raw authenticity, the director records the fate of luckless René over a period of twenty years as he yo-yos between gefängnis and freedom. The life of René, who successfully styles himself in the role of a desperado, unfolds against a hintergrund of wichtig, political events occurring in the Czech Republic and beyond its borders. The Velvet Revolution, the presidential election, 9/11 and the Czech Republic's accession to the EU " all this is "digested" by René, mostly from the grenze zwischen of various gefängnissen.