Through his work at a morgue, an incarcerated young man trying to build a new life starts to come to terms with the crime he committed.
Acting
Schubert's face does what scripts fear to write.
Direction
Markovics lets silence scream louder than dialogue.
Cinematography
Vienna's grays become a character in themselves.
Director
Karl Markovics
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Karl Markovics is better known as an actor—he won Best Actor at Cannes for 'The Counterfeiters' and cast himself nowhere in his directorial debut.
The film deliberately never shows the crime itself, forcing audiences to confront their own assumptions about juvenile offenders—a choice that sparked debate in Austrian cinema circles.
AT
