Aglaya (2012)

This film is about the relationship of a mother and her daughter, the split-up of their family, the blessing and curse of belonging together and about coming of age - all this from the perspective of the young girl Aglaja. The story is based on real-life events, an Eastern European circus artist family that fled to the West. If they want to stay in the circus business they have to make up an exotic act. The mother spends all their money to buy a very dangerous act: hanging by her hair high up in the dome of the circus while juggling with burning torches. Every night Aglaja is terrified by the fear of losing her mother. But, on some day, she has to follow the family tradition and become the "Woman with the Hair of Steel".

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Top billed cast

Eszter ÓnodiSabine
Babett JávorAglaja - at 5
Piroska MógaAglaja - at 15
Zsolt BogdánTandarica
Iván KamarásMilo
Piroska MolnárFrau Hitz
Kati LázárFrau Lili
Cecília EsztergályosFrau Pepita
Adél JordánMary
András BálintRoncalli

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