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NORDRAND

by Barbara Albert

synopsis

Vienna, 1995. Jasmin, Tamara, Valentin, Senad and Roman live near the northern border of Austria. Their lives repeatedly intersect and drift apart. The characters involved are young migrants from the former Yugoslavia, Romania, Poland and Austria itself. Strangers in a strange land, they feel a sense of loss in their new, temporary environment. The five-some meet and get close to each other, hopelessly clinging to friendships and relationships with no future. They frequent cafés and train stations dreaming of a better tomorrow. Often, they just fall back on the prospect of short-term affection in yet another doomed romantic or sexual encounter. Trying hard to suppress the memories of war and alienation, they try to find moral strength and warmth through one another.

original title: Nordrand
country: Switzerland, Germany, Austria
year: 1999
genre: fiction
directed by: Barbara Albert
film run: 103'
release date: IT 02/09/1999, AT 22/10/1999, GR 17/11/1999, HU 07/12/1999, DE 31/08/2000, SE 07/09/2001, CZ 24/01/2003, FR 10/06/2004, IS 28/09/2006
screenplay: Barbara Albert
cast: Nina Proll, Edita Malovcic, Astrit Alihajdaraj
cinematography by: Christine A. Maier
film editing: Monika Willi
costumes designer: Alfred Mayerhofer
producer: Erich Lackner
co-producer: Martin Hagemann, Rolf Schmid

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