A man sells life insurance while his own life flatlines in slow motion.
The dull daily routine of an insurance agent, who listlessly drives down the highway every day and conducts customer meetings while longing for his family, becomes a metaphor for a life that has come to a standstill and is threatened with being crushed by loneliness.
Acting
Harzer's wordless highway monotony is crushingly precise.
Direction
Akinci turns rest stops into purgatory.
Director
Bülent Akinci
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of the 'Berlin School' movement—sparse, realist, deeply uncomfortable.
Nebbou's Rashid was cast to contrast German and immigrant experiences of isolation.
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