After screwing up a money exchange a Viennese small-time crook accompanied by a Russian hostess hits the road to the East.
Acting
Josef Hader's perfect hangdog desperation.
Cinematography
Bleak post-Soviet landscapes that somehow seduce.
Director
Andrea Maria Dusl
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This captures a specific early-2000s moment of EU expansion anxiety, with old borders dissolving and new scams emerging.
Director Andrea Maria Dusl reportedly cast Victoria Malektorovych after seeing her in a Ukrainian theater production and refusing to consider anyone else.