Movielogr
Orbis Pictus (1997)
Directed by Martin Šulík
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.
Length 107 minutes
Actors
Dorota Nvotová | Emília Vášáryová | František Kovár | Marián Labuda | Božidara Turzonovová | Július Satinský | Marián Zednikovič | Anton Šulík