Aglaja / Aglaya (2012) DVD9
on October 10th, 2021 at 07:50
This film is about the relationship of a mother and her daughter, the split-up of their family, the blessing and curse of belonging together and about coming of age - all this from the perspective of the young girl Aglaja. The story is based on real-life events, an Eastern European circus artist family that fled to the West. If they want to stay in the circus business they have to make up an exotic act. The mother spends all their money to buy a very dangerous act: hanging by her hair high up in the dome of the circus while juggling with burning torches. Every night Aglaja is terrified by the fear of losing her mother. As she grows, she observes the members of her refugee family that shatter like glass as they try to make a new life abroad, their interdependence, the joys and tribulations of holding onto one another and their eventual break-up.
DVD9 | PAL 16:9 | 01:51:55 | 7.93 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Magyar
Subtitles: English
Director: Krisztina Deak
Cast: Eszter Onodi, Babett Javor, Piroska Moga
Country: Hungary, Romania, Poland
Genre: Biography, Drama
