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ORBIS PICTUS

Czech Republic   

Orbis PictusThe heroine of the story is Tereza, a young girl of sixteen with a simple, infantile vision of the world. One day, she is forced to abandon school and so decides to leave for the capital in search of her mother.

She lives a thousand and one adventures and meets many people during the journey through the interior of the country. She meets a man whose job it is to destroy objects without knowing exactly why he is paid to carry out this function. She then takes part in a strange wedding ceremony where the bridegroom is not yet eighteen and the bride is almost fifty. The party reflects society with its grotesque and incomprehensible rituals.

On arriving at the capital, he finds his mother who mysteriously disappears after giving her advice. The dividing line between the real world and illusion is lost in the day-to-day difficulties and is dissolved in the absurd and in tragicomedy.

     Director

DIRECTOR: Martin Sulik
SCREENPLAY: Martin Sulik, Marek Lescak e Ondrej Sulaj
CINEMATOGRAPHER: Martin Strba
EDITION: Dusan Milko
MUSIC: Vladimir Godar
CAST: Dorotka Nvotová, Marinán Labuda, Bozidara Turzonovová, Július Satinský, Milka Vasaryová, Frantisek Kovár, Marian Zednikovik
PRODUCER: Rudolf Bierman
PRODUCTION: Czech Television/Film Prague/Slovak Television
WORLD SALES: Celluloid Dreams
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ORIGINAL TITLE:

Orbis Pictus
   Col., 105 min, 1997

Martin Sulik first began in cinema in 1985 with The Death of Palo Rocku, a film for TV. Next he directed Hurrah (1986), Tenderness, Evyrything I Like (1992). He also made The Garden (1995), winner of the Special Prize of the Jury at the Karlovy Vary Festival in the Czech Republic.