Directed by:
Ulrich SeidlCinematography:
Wolfgang ThalerCast:
Maria Hofstätter, Alfred Mrva, Erich Finsches, Franziska Weisz, Claudia Martini, Georg Friedrich, Christine Jirku, Gerti Lehner, Rene Wanko, Victor Rathbone (more)Plots(1)
Famed for his controversial documentaries, Ulrich Seidl makes his first fiction film with this impassioned attack on the banality and emptiness of modern suburban life. Using a documentary shooting style and mostly non-actors, Seidl weaves together a series of vignette story lines into a tapestry of loneliness and quiet desperation. A retired old man obsesses over meaningless information in life – the weight of his groceries, and noise level of the neighborhood. A faded beauty queen's devotion to her boyfriend ends after an ugly night at the discotheque. A couple who has long since divorced though still lives under the same roof engages in a psychological war of attrition, trying to force the other into moving out the house. A young teacher's date with her boyfriend turns unexpectedly into a drunken orgy. (Accent Film Entertainment)
(more)Cast
Maria Hofstätter
Austria
Best movies:
Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (2005)
A Whole Life (2023)
Import/Export (2007)
Alfred Mrva
Best movies:
Canicule (2001)
Erich Finsches
Best movies:
Import/Export (2007)
Canicule (2001)
Franziska Weisz
Austria
Best movies:
Stations of the Cross (2014)
Habermann's Mill (2010)
Canicule (2001)
Claudia Martini
West Germany
Best movies:
71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (1994)
Canicule (2001)
Rimini (2022)
Georg Friedrich
Austria
Best movies:
North Face (2008)
The Seventh Continent (1989)
71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (1994)
Christine Jirku
Austria
Best movies:
Canicule (2001)
Gerti Lehner
Best movies:
Canicule (2001)
Rene Wanko
Best movies:
Canicule (2001)
Lovely Rita (2001)
Victor Rathbone
Best movies:
Canicule (2001)
Christian Bakonyi
Best movies:
Canicule (2001)
Viktor Hennemann
Best movies:
Canicule (2001)
Ingeborg Wehofer
Best movies:
Canicule (2001)
Leopold Schlol
Best movies:
Canicule (2001)
Silvia Piglmann
Best movies:
Canicule (2001)
Karl Christoph
Best movies:
Canicule (2001)
Henriette Maslo
Best movies:
Canicule (2001)
Christina Horvath
Best movies:
Canicule (2001)
Norbert Raftl
Best movies:
Canicule (2001)
Edith Helm
Best movies:
Canicule (2001)