The read
Critics rate it 14 points higher than audiences do.
Synopsis
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...
Ratings
IMDb7/10
Rotten Tomatoes84%
Critics rate it 14 points higher than audiences do.
131 audience votes
Key crew
- Ulrich SeidlScreenplay
- Ulrich SeidlDirector
- Veronika FranzScreenplay
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
Stills
Themes
exploitationaustriasexual violenceteacherillegal prostitutionnursing homeunemploymentemigrantukraine