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Women at teh Turn of the Millennium - Nurses

Director
Helena Třeštíková
Original idea
Helena Třeštíková
Producer
Damián Kaušitz
Production company
Czech TV
Director of photography
Hynek Ciboch ...
Editor
Zdenek Patočka
Financial Support
- financial contribution: State Fund for the Support and Development of Czech Cinematography (1994)

Women at the Turn of the Millennium - Nurses

Ženy na přelomu tisíciletí - Sestřičky, Czech Republic, 2003, 56 min, Longitudinal

Synopsis Credits Languages Production Distribution Festivals Financial support Photogallery

Helena Třeštíková is the author of 10 episodes from the series Women on the Brink of the New Millennium, intimate portraits of both successful women and women on the social periphery. Nurses follows ordinary lives of ordinary women. It took Helena Třeštíková 13 years to finish this film. It records feelings of a group of girls that have chosen the career of a nurse. Their lives prior to graduation and then shortly after. Some of them give up the job very soon trying to succeed in a different field, such as acting, motherhood, studies or business. At the end of the film, only one of them still works as a nurse.

Director:

Helena Třeštíková

Producer:

Damián Kaušitz

Dramaturgy:

Rudolf Růžička, Michael Třeštík, Martin Štoll

Original idea:

Helena Třeštíková

Screenplay:

Helena Třeštíková

Editor:

Zdenek Patočka