70 minutes of Austrian prison hell that'll make you grateful for your worst day.
The film tells the story of three young men who land in an Austrian prison for various reasons. They have been sentenced for minor misdemeanors and are confronted by the prisons merciless subculture.
Acting
Pöschl's descent from cocky to broken is devastating.
Direction
Allahyari's documentary-style intensity refuses comfort.
Director
Houchang Allahyari
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Allahyari, an Iranian-Austrian filmmaker, brought outsider perspective to Austria's penal system, making this rare non-exploitative European prison cinema of its era.
Thomas Morris later changed his name to Thomas Unger for credit—same actor, same raw performance, Hollywood-unfriendly identity politics.
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