A steamy Austrian summer where desire collides with economic ruin — and someone's not making it out alive.
Lower Austria in the 80s. Anna helps out in her uncle's tavern to fund her studies and meets handsome Kurt who casts an eye on her. But when the local factory closes, life in the valley changes. Anna learns that Kurt is going to marry. Then a terrible accident occurs. The film conveys the rural society's changing self-conception and outlines the conflict between staying or leaving for the city.
Cinematography
Lush valley landscapes that taunt trapped characters.
Acting
Dagmar Bernhard's simmering restraint before the explosion.
Production
Painfully authentic 80s Austrian tavern detail.
Director
Anita Lackenberger
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Lower Austria's 1980s industrial collapse mirrors broader European rural depopulation, with factory closures devastating communities dependent on single employers.
Director Anita Lackenberger spent years researching valley taverns; the uncle's establishment was built as a functioning set where locals actually drank during filming.
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