Orbis Pictus

Orbis Pictus — Plot

In Slovakia, the sixteen year-old Terezka is discharged from her school with a letter to her mother. Along her surrealistic journey to find her mother, Terezka entwines reality and fantasy and meets a man that is hired to burn clothes; a woman buried on the ground; a young bride that is marrying the forty and something year-old widow of his brother to support her family as a tradition in their village; her younger brother that is intern in a special school; a decadent TV comedian and his wife; a powerful mobster in the kitchen of a restaurant; one lover of her mother in her former address; and finally her promiscuous mother that advises her to travel through the world.

• Release date
• May 22, 1997
• Runtime
• 105 min
• Genres
• Drama, Fantasy
• Director
• Martin Šulík

Orbis Pictus — Cast

Dorota Nvotová Terezka Marián Labuda Emil Božidara Turzonovová Marta Július Satinský Drusa Emília Vášáryová Matka František Kovár Tomás Marián Zednikovič Ridic Anton Šulík ml. Páter