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By Karl MARKOVICS

EPO-FILM - as PROD

Drama - Completed 2011

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Directors' Fortnight 2011

Label Europa Cinemas

Sarajevo FF 2011

Competition Feature Best Film

- Year of production
- 2011
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- AUSTRIA
- Duration
- 98 mn
- Director(s)
- Karl MARKOVICS
- Writer(s)
- Karl MARKOVICS
- Cast
- Georg FRIEDRICH, Gerhard LIEBMANN, Karin LISCHKA, Thomas SCHUBERT
- ISAN
- 0000-0002-E679-0000-2-0000-0000-V
- EIDR
- 10.5240/213C-84DC-735D-3F87-ABEA-A
- Synopsis
- Roman Kogler, 18, is serving time in a juvenile detention centre, having been convicted of
  manslaughter. As he has already served half of his sentence, he could be released on
  probation, but his chances are poor: he is constrained , a loner, without family, and seems
  incapable of rehabilitation.
  After a failed attempt to place him in a workshop outside of the detention centre, Roman
  finds himself a job at the municipial funerary institution in Vienna.
  His new colleagues treat him in part with distrust and in part with undisguised rejection.
  And one day Roman is faced with a dead woman who bears his family name. Even though
  it soon turns out that she is not his mother, Roman starts asking questions about his
  heritage for the first time.
  A series of situations in which he has to prove himself and ensueing disappointments
  follows.
  And against all expectation precisely these disappointments make Roman stronger and
  more mature, and in the end lead him to the growing insight: that missed opportunities
  cannot be made up and that past deeds cannot be corrected, however much we may wish
  to. All that remains is the life we lead now and the way we do it.

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