Requiem Pro Panenku (Requim For A Maiden)

Czech. No sub-titles.

There are two kinds of films - those that are pleasant and those like Requiem for a Maiden. A film that attacks you and leaves you exhausted and depressed. Requiem tells a story based on real events. After her father´s assault, and due to an administrative mistake, the main character, fourteen-year-old Marika is moved to hospital for mentally affected adolescents. She suffers from post-traumatic shock but from the very start of her stay it is obvious that she does not belong in there. What she sees in the hospital is pure horror, beyond imagination. She encounters every possible means of man´s humiliation. The girl patients are being drugged all the time without considering their actual condition, and handled with unprecedented cruelty. Nobody is responding to Marika´s constant protests against the unbearable situation. However what seemed to be utmost horror is nothing compared to the night which ends it all.