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and František Kovár. The film, directed by

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, won Special Award of the Jury at the International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg in

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as the Best Film in 1997. The film was selected as the Slovak entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the

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, but was not accepted as a nominee.

Plot

After being kicked out of boarding school sixteen-year-old Terezka goes on a fantasy-filled surrealistic journey to find her estranged mother. Along her way to Bratislava, she comes in contact with a mystical and strange cast of characters.

Cast

* Dorota Nvotová as Terezka * as chauffeur * Július Satinský as Drusa * as bride * as father * Marián Labuda as Emil * Božidara Turzonovová as Marta *

as mother * as Tomáš *Mojmír Caban as railroader *Ľubica Krkošková as railroader's wife *Donato Moriconi as Momo *Jakub Ursíny as groom * as old woman *Róbert Zimermann as Imriško *

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Additional credits

* František Lipták - art director * Milan Čorba -

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* Ivan Seifert -

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* Anita Hroššová -

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* Erik Panák - assistant director * Dalibor Michalčík - assistant camera * Viktor Fančovič - camera operator * Jana Liptáková - script editor * Ján Kittler - assistant sound *

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- conductor * Miroslav Hřebejk - sound mix

Awards

;Notes *A Won Klára Issová for her role of Veronika in ''Nejasná správa o konci sveta by

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. The second nominee included Vilma Cibulková (for her role of in ''

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'' by Petr Koliha).

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