The Unbalanced

The Unbalanced

79 mins | Drama | April 6, 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.

The Unbalanced

79 mins | Drama | April 6, 2023

The Unbalanced
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.
Producers D1film, R.U.R., VIRUSfilm
Original title Zošalieť
Directors Zuzana Piussi
Writers Ingrid Hrubaničová

Cast

Daniela Gudabová

as Second Neighbour

Ľudmila Lukačíková

as Ms. Žiačiková

Petr Kalmus

as Homeless Man

Peter Bálik

as Homeless Man

Róbert Zipser

as Homeless Man

Ivan Dianiška

as Pilot

Ivan Ostrochovský

as Publisher

Zvonko Lakčevič

as Publisher's Friend

Jozef Tkáč

as Nadia's Father

Michal Ďuriš st.

as Physician

Mária Breinerová

as Deáková

Valéria Fürješová

as Belanová

Lucia Fričová

as Dr. Navrátilová

Karolína Poláková

as Dr. Baráthová