ILUZJA

Shot in the Baltic Sea region near Gdynia, the film explores when despair tips into irrationality. Since the police, or so Hanna assumes, are not doing their job properly, she takes the search into her own hands. The boundaries between fact and fiction blur: was there really that button from her daughter's coat? How much hope can there be from the weirdos who keep calling and claiming to have seen the missing girl here and there? Does the police really not want to help her, or do they just want to get off work on time? And why is the belief in the supernatural gradually turning from a consolation into a lifeline? Perhaps Minorowicz's observation is applicable not only to a mother who has lost her daughter, but also to an entire society suffering from symptoms of despair. And facts bend in such a way that they no longer disrupt a worldview that is formed by the imperative that everything must remain “normal”. An illusion that leads Hanna to the brink of schizophrenia.

Text: Bernd Buder