Charlatan, by Agnieszka Holland
Based on the life of Jan Mikolášek, the Czech filmmaker explores the link between the private and the political, and the relationship between the passage of time and the story of an unconventional individual. Mikolášek, who lived in Czechoslovakia during turbulent times, was a talented, sensitive and enigmatic character, a faith healer, a solidary man, used and protected by both the National Socialist and Communist regimes. Bun in the post-Stalinist years, the political climate change, and so does his way of living.