Overview
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...
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Filming locations
Filmed in the Czech Republic
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Setting
Set in Ukraine and Austria
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Cinematography
Cinematography by Wolfgang Thaler and Edward Lachman
Details
- Director
- Writers
- Ulrich SeidlScreenplay
- Veronika FranzScreenplay
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- October 18, 2007
- Original language
- German
- Countries
- Austria, Ukraine, Germany
Production
Cast
Ekateryna RakOlga
Paul HofmannPauli
Michael ThomasPaulis Stiefvater
Susanne LotharPaulis Mutter
Natalija BaranovaOlgas Freundin (Ukraine)- Natalja EpureanuOlgas Freundin (Wien)
Maria HofstätterSchwester Maria
Georg FriedrichPfleger Andi- Erich FinschesErich Schlager
Johannes NussbaumSohn Einfamilienhaus- Lidiya Oleksandrivna SavkaOlgas Mutter
- Dmytro Andriyovich GachkovOlgas Bruder
- Miloslava KubkovaWeb Sex Hausmeisterin
- Katka AckermannováWeb Sex Girl
- Lucie RadlováWeb Sex Girl
- Zdenka TothováWeb Sex Girl
- Gerhard KomarekPutzfirma Instruktor
Brigitte KrenPauls Mutter- Anastasia SergeyevaProstituierte Hotelzimmer
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