29 minutes to watch a man learn that good luck always expires.
Andreas is a journalist covering a story on Larissa, a patient with tuberculosis. At the hospital he meets a nurse called Yvonne. The encounter with the two women moves Andreas more than he wishes to admit. A short film about luck and its inevitable slipping away.
Acting
Stangenberg's TB cough that sounds like fate knocking.
Cinematography
Clinical whites that feel colder than the Alps.
Director
Georg Isenmann
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Georg Isenmann made this as his graduation film from Zurich University of the Arts—explains the overachieving precision.
The title 'Blitzeis' refers to black ice—hidden danger you don't see until you're already crashing. The entire plot, basically.
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