Cruel Joys
Kruté radosti
Release: 2002-10-03
·Runtime: 104m
·★ 6.1
Drama
Comedy
This simple story is the feature debut for well-known Slovak theater and television director Juraj Nvota. Set in a Slovak village at the turn of the last century, the story teems with passion, and repressed and hidden emotion. It delves into the search for identity, investigating both love and hatred, while dramatizing the tragic relationship between an adolescent girl (Tatiana Pauhofová) and her ambitious father (Ondrej Vetchý). Set against the striking though simple backdrop of a picturesque, even idyllic, landscape - one ostensibly cut off from any important historical, political, or social context whatsoever - the arrival of an unwanted individual evokes the onset of a cruel drama.
Production Countries
Czech Republic
Slovakia
Production Companies
ALEF Film & Media Group
Slovenská televízia
Total HelpArt T.H.A.
Česká televize
UN Film
Cast
Ján Kroner
Tatiana Pauhofová
as Valentína
Lukáš Latinák
Szidi Tobias
Martin Nahálka
Milan Ondrík
Csongor Kassai
as Lajosz
Ady Hajdu
as Gabriel
Anikó Varga
Milan Mikulčík
František Zvarík
Attila Mokos
Ondřej Vetchý
as Karel
Anna Šišková
Július Satinský
Zuzana Kanócz
Lucia Klein Svoboda
Zuzana Haasová
