Released:
1997-05-22

Overview:
In Slovakia, the sixteen year-old Terezka is discharged from her school with a letter to her mother. Along her surrealistic journey to find her mother, Terezka entwines reality and fantasy and meets a man that is hired to burn clothes; a woman buried on the ground; a young bride that is marrying the forty and something year-old widow of his brother to support her family as a tradition in their village; her younger brother that is intern in a special school; a decadent TV comedian and his wife; a powerful mobster in the kitchen of a restaurant; one lover of her mother in her former address; and finally her promiscuous mother that advises her to travel through the world.

Director:
Martin Šulík

Runtime:
1h 45min

Genre:
Drama, Fantasy

• Cast:
• 
  Dorota Nvotová
  as
  Terezka
• 
  Marián Labuda
  as
  Emil
• 
  Božidara Turzonovová
  as
  Marta
• 
  Július Satinský
  as
  Drusa
• 
  Emília Vášáryová
  as
  Matka