Picture to download Prizes: 2000 - Budapest Hungarian Film Week Special Pize: Krisztina Deák - Director, Gábor Balog - Cinematographer, József Romvári - Art Director, Györgyi Szakács - Costume Designer, Ildikó Tóth - Actress 2000 - Salerno International Film Festival Grand Prix

Jadviga's Pillow (Jadviga párnája) (1999, feature, 35mm, colour, 129 min.) Director: Krisztina Deák Screenplay: Krisztina Deák, Pál Závada Writer: Pál Závada Director of photography: Gábor Balog Editor: Zsuzsa Csákány Music: György Selmeczi Sound: István Sipos Visual design: József Romvári Costumes: Györgyi Szakács Production manager: László Tímár Producer: György Marosi Production company: Mafilm Cast: Ildikó Tóth, Viktor Bodó, Luknár Roman, Mari Csomós, Djoko Rosić, Marián Labuda, Béla Fesztbaum, Eszter Ónodi Our film takes the audience to the 1910’s and 1920’s Hungary, to a region populated mainly by Slovakians, but above all into a passionately painful marriage and the world of destructive love and sensual sufferings. Nobody is happier than Ondris, who’s getting married to the girl of his dreams: he’s won his father’s foster-daughter, Jadviga’s heart. He seduced this magically attractive, but dangerously mysterious woman from Germany, where she studied. The playful but fiery tempered passion on one hand and the honest desire for a happy marriage and devotion on the other can give some hope at the beginning. But things get confusing very soon: the presence of the war outside – Ondris is called up and he has to pay a heavy price for going home: Jadviga’s old seducer shows up. Ondris is in danger of losing his marriage. He’s in danger of becoming the instrument in the hand of those who try to quench the Slovakian consciousness. He’s in danger of losing his friends, and of his mother dying in the madness of being unloved. Namely it’s a possibility that he fails as lover, husband, father and son, just as he flunks as the head of the family and a member of a community. He’s in danger of self-destruction. Jadviga becomes a desperately sad wife, mother and lover because of the inexecutable and divided desires of whosoever. There’s mutual goodwill and emotional bonding between the couple but nothing can stop the break up…