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Orbis Pictus

Orbis Pictus

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Status

Released

Release Date

May 22, 1997

Runtime

1h 47m

Genres

Drama, Fantasy

User Score

69%

Original Title

Orbis Pictus

Production Companies

Charlie's Bratislava

Director

Martin Šulík

Description

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.