NOCH BIN ICH NICHT, WER ICH SEIN MÖCHTE

In the organizer's words:

CZE/SVK/AUT 2024, documentary film, 90 min

Director: Klára Tasovská

Language: OmU (Czech with German subtitles)

Content Notes: 9, 4

After the suppression of the Prague Spring in 1968, the young photographer Libuše Jarcovjáková tries to escape the constraints of the repressive Czechoslovakian regime with her pictures. To do so, she took to the streets of Prague, to dusty pubs, to the night shift in a print shop, to the communities of Roma and Vietnamese migrants. Snapshots of nudity, sex and alcohol alternate with images of lethargy and restrictions. When she gets into trouble with the police over photos from a gay club, Libuše enters into a sham marriage and moves to Berlin. But the new world is also full of obstacles. With the last of her money, she flies to Tokyo, where she makes her breakthrough as a fashion photographer. But that is not the life Libuše wants to live.

What world do I live in? Who am I? How do I want to live? Czech director Klára Tasovská has assembled a poetic film essay from Libuše Jarcovjáková's work of tens of thousands of negatives and dozens of diaries. It tells the story of a special artist's life and a moving journey to freedom that spans six decades and leads from the Soviet ČSSR of the late 1960s to East Berlin in the 1980s and Prague after the fall of the Iron Curtain.

ENG: What world do I live in? Who am I? How do I want to live? Czech director Klára Tasovská has assembled a poetic film essay from photographer Libuše Jarcovjáková's work of tens of thousands of negatives and dozens of diaries. It tells of an artist's life and a moving journey to freedom that spans six decades and leads from the Soviet ČSSR in the late 1960s to East Berlin in the 1980s and to Prague after the fall of the Iron Curtain. (Czech with German subtitles)

Price information:

- 7.00 € (regular) - 5.50 € (reduced*) - 3.50 € (with Leipzig Pass, disabled pass, volunteer pass) - Films longer than 130 min: + 1.00 € - Tickets are available online (plus € 0.70 booking fee), remaining tickets at the Box Office.