The story of a Polish mother who is exploited as a cheap worker in Austria, and of an Austrian realtor, who fits the typical cliché of a stubborn, sexually frustrated and ugly midlife man.
Acting
Justa's silent resilience vs Breitfuß's pathetic desperation.
Direction
Mader's unblinking eye for mundane humiliation.
Director
Ruth Mader
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of early 2000s Austrian 'ultra-realism' movement, where misery became aesthetic.
Mader reportedly cast Justa after seeing her actual cleaning work in Vienna—method casting before it was cool.
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