Two Syllables Behind

35 mmORES12
Director:Katarína Šulajová
Length:83 minutes
Genre:Drama, Romantický

Two Syllables Behind

O dve slabiky pozadu; Katarína Šulajová, 2004, OV (rôzne) + AT; Katarína Šulajová, 2004, versions: OR,ES,

Director: Katarína Šulajová • Scenario: Katarína Šulajová • Kameraman: Alexander Šurkala • Actors: Zuzana Šulajová, Anna Ferenczy, Mikuláš Křen, Marek Majeský, Pierre-Philippe Deleau, Tatiana Radeva

It is a story of Zuza, a student of History of Arts, and her roaming between relationships, people, reality and fiction, and above all, a story about her struggle to find in all that confusion herself. The film is a mosaic of real and dreamlike situations, in which Zuza gets confused in her effort to obtain from life as much as she can in the shortest possible time. She wants to study, to find and enjoy the love of her life, to earn big money and to substitute her dysfunctional family with something else. The story takes place in present day Bratislava and Paris. Zuza is not a typical "poor" student. Besides studying, she earns her living as a dubbing actress and it seems she has got everything. She is independent, financially secure, popular, but in spite of all that she just wanders in her life from one place to another, from one person to the next one. She has neither permanent relationships, nor strong family ties and security that would bring a bit of order into her chaotic existence. The only exception is her eccentric grandmother Erzsebet, for whom Zuza cares dearly and who gradually reveals Zuza how to get out of the vicious circle where she is pointlessly seeking her happiness.

Length: 83 min

Year: 2004

Country of origin:

  • Czech Republic
  • Slovakia

Language version:

OR - Original version
ES - English subtitles

Director: Katarína Šulajová • Scenario: Katarína Šulajová • Kameraman: Alexander Šurkala • Actors: Zuzana Šulajová, Anna Ferenczy, Mikuláš Křen, Marek Majeský, Pierre-Philippe Deleau, Tatiana Radeva

It is a story of Zuza, a student of History of Arts, and her roaming between relationships, people, reality and fiction, and above all, a story about her struggle to find in all that confusion herself. The film is a mosaic of real and dreamlike situations, in which Zuza gets confused in her effort to obtain from life as much as she can in the shortest possible time. She wants to study, to find and enjoy the love of her life, to earn big money and to substitute her dysfunctional family with something else. The story takes place in present day Bratislava and Paris. Zuza is not a typical "poor" student. Besides studying, she earns her living as a dubbing actress and it seems she has got everything. She is independent, financially secure, popular, but in spite of all that she just wanders in her life from one place to another, from one person to the next one. She has neither permanent relationships, nor strong family ties and security that would bring a bit of order into her chaotic existence. The only exception is her eccentric grandmother Erzsebet, for whom Zuza cares dearly and who gradually reveals Zuza how to get out of the vicious circle where she is pointlessly seeking her happiness.

Year: 2004

Country of origin:

  • Czech Republic
  • Slovakia

Language version:

OR - Original version
ES - English subtitles