A WOMAN CAPTURED

By Bernadett TUZA-RITTER

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Documentary - Completed 2017


Festivals
& Awards

Sundance Film Festival 2018
World Cinema Documentary Competition
Sheffield Doc/Fest 2018
Expose
    • Year of production
    • 2017
    • Genres
    • Documentary, First film, Social issues
    • Countries
    • HUNGARY
    • Languages
    • HUNGARIAN
    • Duration
    • 89 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Bernadett TUZA-RITTER
    • Synopsis
    • While preparing a project on modern slavery, filmmaker Bernadett Tuza-Ritter uncovers a treacherous story. Inside an upscale Hungarian home run by a tyrannical matriarch resides a domestic slave. At 52 years old, Marish labors 20 hours a day without pay and endures a constant barrage of emotional and physical abuse. For those who see her on the street, it’s impossible to imagine the hell she returns to every day. Eating only scraps from dinners she prepares and receiving cigarettes instead of cash, Marish has forgotten what freedom feels like and lost all will to leave. Until Bernadett enters the scene.