In an apocalyptic landscape, a town cut off from the world by ice is visited by a traveling circus. Headlined by the world’s biggest whale and the illusive figure of “The Prince,” the visitors spur a mob of restless townspeople to a night of chaos. In the film, characterized by a David Lynch–style surrealism and compared by editor and co-director Hranitzky to The Wizard of Oz, “violence and beauty erupt equally unexpectedly in this mesmerizing universe“ (The Guardian). 2000, 35mm, in Hungarian with English subtitles,145 minutes.
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