Drama / Mystery
Hungary / Germany / USA,
2007, 108 min
Directed by:
János SzászScreenplay:
János SzászCinematography:
Tibor MáthéComposer:
Jóhann JóhannssonCast:
Ulrich Thomsen, Áron Mátyássy, Kirsti Stubø, Marian Saastad Ottesen, Zsolt László, Kata Fekete, Adrienn Molnár, Júlia SándorPlots(1)
Set in a Hungarian mental institution in 1900, this dark and intense drama follows a dangerous affair between Jozsef Brenner (Ulrich Thomsen), a morphine-addicted physician, and Gizella Klein (Kirsti Stubo), his profoundly disturbed patient. Brenner, who struggles with writer's block, is drawn to his deranged patient because she has the opposite problem: she cannot stop writing for a moment. While at first his interest is professional, it soon turns into a personal obsession that cannot easily be exorcised. (official distributor synopsis)
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