Dimény, who was in the cast of Lajos Koltai?s Fateless, based on a novel by Hungarian Nobel Prize-winner Imre Kertész, plays Dr. Serafim in Somewhere in Palilula.
Purcarete says the film is ?about immorality and melancholy?. He calls Palilula ?a small island in the centre of the Vallachian plain, made of the dust of a distant planet? and says that there ?one can never know if people lie, dream or really live?.
In the film, Dr Serafim is sent to Palilula to replace the town?s pediatrician, who has died.
In the hospital, he finds the patients are ?perfectly healthy?, according to the film synopsis.
?One of [the patients?] favorite entertainments is to assist at the dissections in the morgue. The rest of the population is charming and imbecile at the same time, forever isolated in drunkenness, feasting, and orgy.?
The synopsis says Serafim gradually becomes accustomed to life in the town, perhaps involuntarily.
?By the end, Palilula disintegrates, characters disappear, die, each and every one of them ends, in his specific way, his fabulous existence.?
Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI)
