Directed by:
Krisztina DeákCinematography:
Gábor BalogComposer:
György SelmecziCast:
Ildikó Tóth, Viktor Bodó, Roman Luknár, Djoko Rossich, Eszter Ónodi, Marian Labuda, Peter Šimun, Zsolt Nagy, Gabriella Hámori, Dénes Újlaky, Lili Monori (more)Plots(1)
Our film takes the audience to the 1910's and 1920's Hungary, to a region populated mainly by the Slovaks, but above all into a passionately painful marriage and the world of destructive love and sensual sufferings. Nobody is happier than Ondris, who is getting married to the girl of his dreams: he has won his father's foster-daughter, Jadviga's heart. He seduced this magically attractive, but dangerously mysterious woman from Germany, where she studied. The playful but fiery tempered passion on one hand and the honest desire for a happy marriage and devotion on the other can give some hope at the beginning. But things get confusing very soon: the presence of the war outside – Ondris is called up and he has to pay a heavy price for going home: Jadviga's old seducer shows up... Ondris is in danger of losing Jadviga and his happy future. He's in danger of becoming the instrument in the hand of those who try to quench the Slovakian consciousness. He's in danger of losing his friends, and of his mother dying in the madness of being unloved. In other words, he may fail as a lover, husband, father and son, just as he flunks as the head of the family and a member of a community. He's in danger of self-destruction. Jadviga becomes a desperately sad wife, mother and lover because of the impossible desires of others. There's mutual goodwill and emotional bonding between the couple but nothing can stop the break up... (CinEast)
(more)Cast
Ildikó Tóth
Hungary
Best movies:
The Investigator (2008)
Aurora Borealis: Northern Lights (2017)
The Whiskey Bandit (2017)
Viktor Bodó
Hungary
Best movies:
Roman Luknár
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Major Case Squad (2014) (series)
Henrich IV. (1987) (theatrical recording)
The Karamazov Brothers (2008)
Djoko Rossich
Yugoslavia
Best movies:
Werckmeister Harmonies (2000)
Time of Violence (1988)
Przeklete oko proroka (1984)
Eszter Ónodi
Hungary
Best movies:
Perlasca: The Courage of a Just Man (2002) (TV movie)
Sunshine (1999)
Houdini (2014) (TV movie)
Marian Labuda
Slovak state
Best movies:
My Sweet Little Village (1985)
All My Loved Ones (1999)
Raz, dva, tri (1985) (TV movie)
Peter Šimun
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Zhŕňajova nevesta (1978) (TV movie)
Ženské oddelenie (1991) (TV movie)
Invalid (2023)
Zsolt Nagy
Hungary
Best movies:
Control (2003)
Children of Glory (2006)
The Exam (2011)
Gabriella Hámori
Hungary
Best movies:
As Far as I Know (2020)
The Exam (2011)
Ruben Brandt, Collector (2018)
Dénes Újlaky
Kingdom of Hungary
Best movies:
Narcissus and Psyche (1980)
Citizen X (1995) (TV movie)
Passion (1998)
Lili Monori
Kingdom of Hungary
Best movies:
The Witness (1969)
Delta (2008)
Aurora Borealis: Northern Lights (2017)
Sándor Csányi
Hungary
Best movies:
Paths of Light (2005)
Control (2003)
Eternal Winter (2018)
Attila Gigor
Hungary
Best movies:
A Bus Came (2003)
Jadviga's Pillow (2000)
András Szabó
Best movies:
The Outsider (1981)
Jadviga's Pillow (2000)
Mari Csomós
Kingdom of Hungary
Best movies:
My Way Home (1965)
Diary for My Loves (1987)
Fateless (2005)
Zsolt Trill
Soviet Union
Best movies:
The Seventh Circle (2008)
The Whiskey Bandit (2017)
Chameleon (2008)
Patricia Kovács
Hungary
Best movies:
Demimonde (2015)
Rasputin (1996) (TV movie)
Pleasant Days (2002)
Béla Fesztbaum
Hungary
Best movies:
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008)
6:3 (1999)
Sleepwalkers (2002)
Edit Dékány
Best movies:
Jadviga's Pillow (2000)
Ferenc Elek
Hungary
Best movies:
The Company (2007) (series)
The Exam (2011)
Trezor (2018)