BigList
Login / Sign up
Aglaya (2012)

Aglaya (2012)

Drama
Release Date: 2012, October 11
Directors: Krisztina Deák
Countries: Hungary, Poland, Romania
Production: Opus Film, Inforg Studio, Hai Hui Entertainement
Cast: Iván Kamarás, András Bálint, Piroska Molnár, Tamás Keresztes, Eszter Ónodi, Adél Jordán, Kati Lázár, Piroska Móga, Cecília Esztergályos, Zsolt Bogdán, Babett Jávor

Overview:

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. But, on some day, she has to follow the family tradition and become the "Woman with the Hair of Steel".

Keywords:

woman director