“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 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 ...

Brutal in both subject matter and presentation, the art-house biopic I, Olga tells the story of the last woman to be given the death penalty in Czechoslovakia. Olga Hepnarova, a suicidal 22-year-old ...

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 ...