A film based on the true story of a twenty year old girl who lives with her mother and her younger, parasitic partner in Bratislava’s Petržalka district. Her ideas about life are full of ideals, but reality is completely different. Out of boredom, and lacking positive motivation and family care, the young girl commits an irreversible act that ruins her life.
Acting
Zuzana Kapráliková's devastating stillness.
Production
Petržalka's concrete misery as character.
Director
Roman Petrenko
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Petržalka was Slovakia's largest concrete housing project, a Soviet-era 'solution' that became synonymous with post-communist decay.
Based on real 1990s case files; director Petrenko filmed in actual locations to let the architecture do the emotional heavy lifting.
SK
