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The Unbalanced

After a painful divorce, 50-year-old Nadia finally finds a good flat for reasonable price for her and her daughter. Too good to be true, and soon, albeit too late, she comes to understand the reason for the bargain. Her close neighbour in the house is mentally ill Valika who terrorises everyone around her. Piussi’s film creates a string of absurd encounters with increasingly menacing effects, but it is – at its core – a fantastically precise film about humanism, its consequences, its possible limits.

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  • Ingrid Hrubaničová

    Ingrid Hrubaničová

    Nadia

  • Vladimír Zboroň

    Vladimír Zboroň

    Vlado

  • Jaroslava Sisáková

    Jaroslava Sisáková

    Valika

  • Daniela Gudabová

    Daniela Gudabová

    Second Neighbour

  • Tatiana Marta Rehúšová

    Tatiana Marta Rehúšová

    Daughter

  • Ľudmila Lukačíková

    Ľudmila Lukačíková

    Ms. Žiačiková

  • Petr Kalmus

    Petr Kalmus

    Homeless Man

  • Peter Bálik

    Peter Bálik

    Homeless Man

  • Róbert Zipser

    Róbert Zipser

    Homeless Man

Overview

After a painful divorce, 50-year-old Nadia finally finds a good flat for reasonable price for her and her daughter. Too good to be true, and soon, albeit too late, she comes to understand the reason for the bargain. Her close neighbour in the house is mentally ill Valika who terrorises everyone around her. Piussi’s film creates a string of absurd encounters with increasingly menacing effects, but it is – at its core – a fantastically precise film about humanism, its consequences, its possible limits.

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