Overview
At a dusty crossroads in the Soviet Union villagers surrender their possessions - a horse, a samovar, a goat - to the state. The train which takes them away brings to the village a physically and mentally handicapped woman, barely able to speak. She makes herself bracelets of burrs and studies herself in a cracked and cloudy mirror. Befriended by very few, teased and tormented by many she seeks protection at a huge portrait of Stalin.
Cast
- Juli Básti as Paranya
- György Cserhalmi as Zorka
- Nina Petri as Liza
- Miklós Benedek as Andrej Andrejevics
- Zoltán Bezerédy as Rendõrkapitány
- Barbara Hegyi as Olga Filimovna
- Pál Mácsai as Genagyij Pesztyarjov, tornatanár
- Ildikó Pécsi as Nadezsgya Zsdanova ,szörpárus
- Rajhona Ádám as Bibakov
- Dénes Ujlaki as Bavucsilov