8 Heads of Madness

ANNA ALEXANDROVNA BARKOVA 19011976 Journalist and poet meeting suspicious characters Involved in immoral love affairs Work in the Kremlin fired 1934 Arrested 5 years of penal servitude in Karaganda Lived in Ukraine during the WWII 1946 Arrested 5 years of penal servitude in the Komi Republic 1956 Rehabilitated disability pension 1957 Arrested 10 years of penal servitude The film 8 Heads of Madness is about the eternal struggle between the artist and external circumstances the artist and her demons and longings 8 Heads of Madness is a drama woven from fragments of an appalling era An unhappy crosssection of the 20th century in an unhappy country as seen through the sensitive perceptive vision of a poet