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"With great power comes great responsibility" -- but what if the hero is just a hen? Escaping from a chicken farm, she finds refuge in the courtyard of a crumbling restaurant. There, she discovers love, confronts the pecking order, and fights to protect her eggs from a greedy owner. Her droll yet touching quest for motherhood mirrors the messy compromises and silent struggles of human lives.

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Michael Brooke Sight & Sound 23h
The Hungarian director follows a resilient hen through a world of predators, traffickers and industrial systems in a film that flips from absurd comedy to horror. Go to Full Review Wendy Ide Observer (UK) May 28
The jolly Balkan music of the score suggests this avian adventure will be a lighthearted affair, but the low, chicken’s-eye lens captures an increasingly bleak human drama as it unfolds. Go to Full Review Miriam Balanescu Empire Magazine May 26
4/5
This Hungarian-language drama is a wild, surreal, harrowing and funny ride that may even win you over to veganism. Think Chicken Run for intellectuals.  Go to Full Review Amber Wilkinson Eye for Film Jun 9
4/5
Pálfi doesn’t shy away from the dark greed and carelessness of humanity but somehow in the middle of tragedy, he still pecks away at a little bit of hope. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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F M @Albannach May 31 An exploration of a hen's world with all its dangers and tribulations metamorphoses into a depressingly human exploration of man's inhumanity to man. Billed as a comedy (resolutely described, falsely, by critics as "Balkan" and "Hungarian") but set in a rural Greece among a flourishing people-trafficking industry, this may make you reconsider whether fowl and human are really so far apart. See more Read all reviews
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Gyorgy Palfi

Director

Yannis Kokiasmenos

Actor

Maria Diakopanayotou

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Argyris Pandazaras

Actor

Antonis Kafetzopoulos

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Argyris Pantazaras

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Synopsis "With great power comes great responsibility" -- but what if the hero is just a hen? Escaping from a chicken farm, she finds refuge in the courtyard of a crumbling restaurant. There, she discovers love, confronts the pecking order, and fights to protect her eggs from a greedy owner. Her droll yet touching quest for motherhood mirrors the messy compromises and silent struggles of human lives.
Director
Gyorgy Palfi
Producer
Martin Hampel, Thanassis Karathanos, Costas Lambropoulos, Giorgos Kiriakos
Screenwriter
Gyorgy Palfi, Zsofia Ruttkay
Production Co
View Master Films, Pallas Film, Twenty Twenty Vision
Genre
Drama
Original Language
Greek
Runtime
1h 36m