The Unbalanced
5.8
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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Cast
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Ingrid Hrubaničová
Nadia
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Vladimír Zboroň
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Vědma
Jaroslava Sisáková
Valika
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Daniela Gudabová
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Tatiana Marta Rehúšová
Daughter
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Ľudmila Lukačíková
Ms. Žiačiková
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Hranica
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Petr Kalmus
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Peter Bálik
Homeless Man
Róbert Zipser
Homeless Man
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Ivan Dianiška
Pilot
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Ivan Ostrochovský
Publisher
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Zvonko Lakčevič
Publisher's Friend
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Zuzana Piussi Director · Ingrid Hrubaničová Screenplay Lucia Piussi Composer
First release November 19, 2022 · Produced in Czechia, Slovakia · Production VIRUSfilm, R.U.R.
Production
D1 Film
Production
VIRUSfilm
Production
R.U.R.
Production
Czechia · Slovakia
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Languages
Original title
Zošalieť
Original language
Slovak
Spoken on screen
Slovak
Release dates
Estonia · November 19, 2022
Premiere · Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
Slovakia · April 6, 2023
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
Czechia
April 7, 2023 · Theatrical
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