Ivo Brachtl

Too Little Time and the Water Level is Rising

Film essay on fundamental issues of human existence: dignity, Death Penalty, conscience, euthanasia, freedom, abortion, suffering, suicide.

Pictures from a Trip Beyond the Madhouse Fence

The film acquaints us with the work of the senior consultant of pavilion 11 in the Bohnice mental house who endeavours to build up a complex rahabilitation and re-socialising programme for patients with chronic mental illness. One part of her treatment programme is a week's stay outside the institution for selected patients. It is this week which is captured on film