Adrienn Pál

Piroska is an overweight, alienated nurse who can’t resist cream-filled pastries. She works in the terminal ward of a hospital; her life is surrounded by death. One day she sets off to find her long-lost childhood friend. While tracing her recollections, she embarks on a paradox-filled voyage within her own memory and the memory of those she encoun ters. “A voyage of self-discovery through the winding paths of memory .” “The film is an unusual, pedestrian/public transportation road movie, also offering a sort of cross-section of society as Piroska encounters entirely different lives and fates. From another perspective, it is an inner road movie, a story of development, showing the process through which Piroska comes to recognize herself, and simultaneously the manifold nature of reality and the subjectivity and relativity of memory. Piroska’s personality projects onto the film’s visual world. She is present in all shots, and gradually we find ourselves more and more inside her world: we start seeing with her eyes. Piroska’s inner self is showed through the abstraction of the film’s entire visuality - the combined effect of the set design, costumes and locations - creating a coherent colour and compositional world, complemented by an artificially created auditory world.” Ágnes Kocsis
Austria France Netherlands Hungary
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2010

Director
Agnes Kocsis

Script
Agnes Kocsis
Andrea Roberti

Cinematography
Ádám Fillenz H.S.C.

Editing
Tamás Kollányi H.S.E.

Production
KMH Film (Hungary)

Cast
Ákos Horváth
Gábor Eva
István Znamenak
Izabella Hegyi
Lya Pokorny

Festivals
16th Festival on Wheels
INTERNATIONAL GOLDEN TAURUS FILM COMPETITION