Helene (86) and Toni (70) are completely different. One is planned and well-timed, the other impulsive and spontaneous. As an unlikely team, they embark on a journey to Switzerland for euthanasia. But their road trip through the mountains turns out differently than planned.
Acting
Ostermayer and Tiesel's prickly, gorgeous chemistry.
Cinematography
Mountains as metaphor: beautiful, indifferent, inescapable.
Writing
Euthanasia comedy that actually respects the subject.
Director
Sabine Hiebler
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Austria's strict assisted suicide laws make Switzerland's 'tourism for death' a real, controversial phenomenon for elderly Europeans.
Margarethe Tiesel famously starred in the sexually explicit 'Paradise: Love' (2012); this is her softer, stranger late-career pivot.
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