Year of the Widow
Year of the Widow is a 2024 drama film directed by Veronika Lišková. The plot is based on Zuzana Pokorná's notes of the same name, which were published in the weekly magazine Respekt in 2014 and 2016, in which the author described her emotions and the bureaucratic procedures she had to go through after losing her husband.
The film was screened at the Warsaw Film Festival.
Plot
Interpreter Petra has to come to terms with the fact that she has become a widow at the age of forty. She soon discovers that grief is not the only challenge she has to face as she must deal with worries about her about her teenage daughter, pressure from manipulative mother-in-law and with bureaucratic machinery that comes to life with a person's death: mortgages, loans, rents, fees, endless inheritance proceedings.Cast
- Pavla Beretová as Petra
- Julie Šoucová as daughter
- Zuzana Kronerová as mother-in-law
- Tomáš Bambušek
- Lucie Žáčková