Synopsis
Kornel Nundruczo was born in Budapest. He is famous for experimental drama such as I Wish This and Nothing More (2000) and Pleasant Days (2004). JOHANNA was nominated as Discovery of the Year at the 2002 European Film Award and won best film at the 7th Sofia Film Festival. JOHANNA is a meeting of classical opera and a sensible experimental mind. It shows an odd sense mixed with the classical esthetics of opera and the arid emotions of the present. It is interesting the way the director treats human instinct by freely contrasting, which seems to be self-indulgent, with a prison-like hospital under absolute suppression. A morphine addict, Johanna becomes comatose due to overdose. A young doctor, Zsolt Trill, saves her by a miracle. She recovers and is also reborn. Afterwards, she loses memory of the past, but she finds a special ability, which is 'sexual remedy power'. She works as a nurse and gives her body to patients. The staff members at the hospital who hate her remedy call her a whore. They try to restrain her but it's not easy because the patients protect her. Johanna's treatment is expressed as the love of an angel who treats patents with sex as a means of remedy in a restrained hospital. In particular, the scene of giving life through sex is impressive.