When Your Life Is Not Your Own

synopsis

The phenomenon of negative manipulation is known to all of us, and very few of us can always defend ourselves and not have at least some remorse. And when the source of the manipulation is a supposed good, but it harms rather than helps and is part of a huge mental massage in a cult, we have a big problem. What effect can negative manipulation have on our lives? How to detect it and defend ourselves? We illustrate the topic with the story of Dusan Straus, a photographer and writer who got into the Chinmoy sect. Gradually, he left his job and started to devote himself only to the affairs of the sect. His wife hoped that it was only momentary, but he fell into the sect completely. The world outside the sect ceased to exist for him.

biography

Psychotherapist, graphologist, graduate in management studies, film documentary maker. In her practice, she has worked mainly in psychotherapy and management, worked with people at the social and human bottom, as well as with top managers and successful people, and lectured at university. In the field of media she has several years of experience as an editor at Radio Free Europe and Czech Radio. She has written and photographed for newspapers and magazines. For more than 13 years she has been working first as a screenwriter and then as a director of documentary films. She likes people and yet appreciates solitude, because she says it is the best place to get to know oneself. She loves dancing, mountains and horses.

more about film

director:	Iva Tereza Grosskopfová
producer:	Patrick Diviš
script:	Iva Tereza Grosskopfová
photography:	Josef Nekvasil
editing:	Jiří Mikula
sound:	Jiří Mach

contact

Patrick Diviš / Česká televize
Patrick.Divis@ceskatelevize.cz