A priest, a detective, and a dying woman's nurse walk into your moral compass—and torch it.
Brand, an author, who falls in love with Angela, his terminally ill wife's nurse and blunders into a dangerous spiral of passion and jealousy. A vindictive husband, an insistent chief inspector, a farsighted priest and a proud wife entrap Brand in a maelstrom of persecution, destruction and obliteration which can only end in life or death. It's a quest for redemption, the force which drives us all.
Acting
Bierbichler's crumbling dignity in every frame.
Direction
Roth's suffocating Vienna, all concrete and confession.
Director
Thomas Roth
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Roth adapted this from his own novel, making it one of rare Austrian cases where the director literally wrote the book first.
The film's Vienna—gray, bureaucratic, confessional—deliberately rejects the romantic city of Hollywood, exposing Austria's post-Catholic guilt architecture. Bierbichler, a theater giant, only took film roles this morally punishing.
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