Olga is a complex young woman desperate to break free from her unfeeling family and social conventions. With her Louise Brooks-like tomboyish looks she drags herself, chain-smoking, from one job to another until she appears to find her niche as a truck driver.

Immaculately shot in haunting black and white, this is a penetrating true-crime character study of the last woman to be publicly executed in Czechoslovakia. The Berlinale Panorama opener I, Olga asks the bold question: Is Olga a monster or a victim of the world’s monstrosity?