Carla, the runaway with high aims. Lucie, the street girl. Interchanged identities and a shared baby. Collage of a fateful year.
Acting
Kalenberg and Schramm's raw, unshowy desperation
Direction
Von Heinz's unflinching but tender eye
Writing
Dialogue that sounds stolen from real bus stops
Director
Julia von Heinz
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Von Heinz shot this in her hometown of Mainz using actual social workers as extras — that welfare office scene? Real location, real employees.
Part of the 'Berlin School' adjacent movement: no music, no catharsis, just Germany's underclass staring back at you. Haneke would be proud, depressed, or both.
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