Nordrand
(2000)
Regisseur:
Barbara AlbertSchauspieler:
Georg Friedrich, Edita Malovcic, Brigitte Kren, Nina Proll, Margarete Tiesel, Astrit Alihajdaraj, Tudor Chirila, Michael Tanczos, Martina Stojan, Marta Klubowicz, Andreas Zorn, Raphaela Kenesei, Stefan Kenesei, Markus Hauer, Iva BagaricDie Österreicherin Jasmin (Nina Proll) und die aus Serbien stammende Tamara (Edita Malovcic), ehemals Schulfreundinnen, haben sich in einer Abtreibungsklinik wiedergetroffen. Sie sind gebeutelt von ihren trostlosen Lebensumständen - Gewalt in der Familie, ohne Perspektiven im Beruf, Trennung von der Familie in Sarajewo und Lieblosigkeit allenthalben, vor allem aber von den Männern. International ist deren Herkunft: Roman, der Soldat aus Österreich, Senad, der Flüchtling aus Bosnien, Valentin, der Träumer aus Rumänien. Eine Zeit des Übergangs, vom Wechsel der Beziehungen, die sich unter Begleitumständen wie Schwangerschaft, Wehrdienst, Flucht und Asyl ergeben, ein möglicher Aufbruch in neue Hoffnungen nach all den Enttäuschungen.
Vienna, 1995. Jasmin, Tamara, Valentin, Senad and Roman live near the northern border of Austria. Their lives repeatedly intersect and drift apart. The characters involved are young migrants from the former Yugoslavia, Romania, Poland and Austria itself. Strangers in a strange land, they feel a sense of loss in their new, temporary environment. The five-some meet and get close to each other, hopelessly clinging to friendships and relationships with no future. They frequent cafés and train stations dreaming of a better tomorrow. Often, they just fall back on the prospect of short-term affection in yet another doomed romantic or sexual encounter. Trying hard to suppress the memories of war and alienation, they try to find moral strength and warmth through one another.
Vienna, 1995. Jasmin, Tamara, Valentin, Senad and Roman live near the northern border of Austria. Their lives repeatedly intersect and drift apart. The characters involved are young migrants from the former Yugoslavia, Romania, Poland and Austria itself. Strangers in a strange land, they feel a sense of loss in their new, temporary environment. The five-some meet and get close to each other, hopelessly clinging to friendships and relationships with no future. They frequent cafés and train stations dreaming of a better tomorrow. Often, they just fall back on the prospect of short-term affection in yet another doomed romantic or sexual encounter. Trying hard to suppress the memories of war and alienation, they try to find moral strength and warmth through one another.