An unreservedly matter-of-fact look at two young women who consider prostitution an adventure until reality catches up with them.
Acting
Rot and Kronschläger's devastating, unsentimental chemistry.
Direction
Derflinger's refusal to moralize or glamorize.
Director
Sabine Derflinger
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of a wave of 2000s Austrian 'social realist' cinema examining EU expansion's casualties. The film deliberately mirrors the clinical style of Ulrich Seidl, who produced Derflinger's earlier work.
Anna Rot reportedly spent months with actual sex workers in Vienna's Gürtel district; some background performers were recruited from there. The flat where most scenes were shot was a real brothel location.
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