Vera Drake

Vera Drake

(Vera Drake), Mike Leigh / FRA / GB / Nový Zéland, 2004
English version / Czech subtitles, 125 min

Vera sacrifices herself for others: she cleans apartments, nurses her old mother, lives for her family. And secretly performs abortions. She does not take any money from the unfortunate girls, because she sees it as her mission. But in the 1950s London it is illegal to perform abortions… The film is shot in the tradition of British social realism with extraordinary attention given to the psychology of characters.