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Huba (Parasite)

Synopsis

Huba (Parasite) is a film about an ailing old man and a young mother. After retiring from the factory, the man, deprived of his daily routine, loses control over his time. Unable to eat or sleep, he starts drying up. The mother and child are like a single organism. Yet their relationship is, for all its closeness, one of dependence and inequality. The child, whose attachment to life is the strongest, is ravenous and needy; the woman, though enjoying a brief moment of freedom, is doomed to be a victim, while the old man has nothing to keep him going now that he can no longer work at the factory. When the three of them try to have a life together, they are like the Holy Family reversed. Brought together by chance, their lives intertwine in a web of oppression. The film follows their daily existence and slow decline.
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Details

Year
2013
Type of project
Features
Running time
66 mins
Format
Super 16 mm transferred to 35mm
Director
Anka Sasnal, Wilhelm Sasnal
Producer
Anka Sasnal, Wilhelm Sasnal, Sadie Coles
Executive Producer
Agata Szymaska
Editor
Beata Walentowska
Director of Photography
Wilhelm Sasnal
Production Designer
Marek Zawierucha
Sound
Igor Kaczyski
Principal cast
Joanna Drozda, Jerzy Gajlikowski, Wojtek Sowik
Make-up Artist
Aleksandra Dutkiewicz

Genre

Drama

Categories

Fiction

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Filmpolis

Dolna 7/9 00-773
Warszawa
Poland
Tel: +48 514 593 757

Sadie Coles HQ

69 South Audley Street
London W1K 2QZ
Tel: +44 (0)20 7493 8611
Fax: +44 (0)20 7499 4878

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