The Unbalanced (2023)
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.
Director:
Zuzana Piussi
Writer:
Ingrid Hrubaničová
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Ingrid Hrubaničová as Nadia |
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Vladimír Zboroň as Vlado |
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Jaroslava Sisáková as Valika |
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Daniela Gudabová as Second Neighbour |
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Tatiana Marta Rehúšová as Daughter |
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Ľudmila Lukačíková as Ms. Žiačiková |
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Petr Kalmus as Homeless Man |
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Peter Bálik as Homeless Man |
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Róbert Zipser as Homeless Man |
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Ivan Dianiška as Pilot |
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Ivan Ostrochovský as Publisher |
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Zvonko Lakčevič as Publisher's Friend |
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Jozef Tkáč as Nadia's Father |
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Michal Ďuriš st. as Physician |
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Mária Breinerová as Deáková |
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Valéria Fürješová as Belanová |
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Lucia Fričová as Dr. Navrátilová |
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Karolína Poláková as Dr. Baráthová |
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Vít Bednárik as |
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Erika Čisáriková as |
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Ondrej Gubač as |
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Milan Chalmovský as |
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Petra Fornayová as |
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Zuzana Kovalčíková as |
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Iveta Baňárová as |
| Directing | Zuzana Piussi | Director |
| Writing | Ingrid Hrubaničová | Story |
| Production | Vít Janeček | Producer |
| Editing | Vít Janeček | Editor |
| Crew | Hedvika Hansalová | Dramaturgy |
| Production | Michal Mocňák | Co-Producer |
| Writing | Ingrid Hrubaničová | Screenplay |
| Sound | Jan Richtr | Sound |
| Costume & Make-Up | Tatiana Piussi | Costume Design |
| Sound | Lucia Piussi | Original Music Composer |
| Camera | Martin Štrba | Director of Photography |