A nurse from Ukraine searches for a better life in the West, while an unemployed security guard from Austria heads East for the same reason. Both are looking for work, a new beginning, an existence, struggling to believe in themselves, to find a meaning in life...
Direction
Seidl's static tableaux—humiliation as architecture.
Acting
Rak's silent resilience vs. Hofmann's crumbling bravado.
Cinematography
Fluorescent nursing homes and grey Austrian sprawl.
Director
Ulrich Seidl
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