Cenzorka

The women in Correctional Facility Number 74 in Odessa lead an unspectacular, routine-based existence. They sleep and work together whilst the hours turn into days and the days into weeks. There are no moments of privacy, even mail is read and censored by the guards. This sober, precise take from director Péter Kerekes, best known as a documentary film-maker, accompanies the imprisoned women and offers insight into everyday prison life. Every image tells its own story and every detail a life in this hostile environment. Taking a sensitive approach Kerekes operates on the border between factualness and fiction, as when in a series of discussions real-life prisoners give insight into their inner lives, motherhood and the motives for their actions. Detached from time the abandonment of these women, destined to spend motherhood alone, is dissected.