A nurse traffics the ID cards of demented patients on the black market of identity theft. Driven by easy cash, and an addiction to morphine, she struggles to keep tabs on her emotional void, and a growing fear of punishment.
Acting
Irena Ivanova's hollowed-out, barely-there presence
Cinematography
Static frames that trap you like Gana's life
Direction
Petrova's clinical gaze refuses easy empathy
Director
Ralitza Petrova
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in a real derelict Bulgarian hospital where Petrova's mother worked; the institutional rot is documentary-real.
Won the Golden Leopard at Locarno 2016; jury cited its 'uncompromising vision of post-communist spiritual vacuum.'
DK
BG
