Country: Austria
Year: 2003
Duration: 74'
This is a film about the daily struggle for survival in the work
world: in the strawberry fields, in the factories, in offices, in the
car, on the streets. The main characters are a woman - a strawberry
picker, who arrives in Austria to create a better future for herself and
her daughter - and a man, a real estate agent from Vienna. The hope to
give meaning to their life is born.
"The story takes place on the Eastern border of the European Union. A
border between well-being and poverty, between two socio-economic
systems in a globalized world, in which the neo-liberalist market rules
are brutally explained and applied to the workers" (R. Mader).
Biography
film director
Ruth Mader
Born in Vienna in 1974, Ruth Mader studied directing at the Film
Academy in Vienna and has worked as director's assistant and as cast
director of various full-length films. In 1999, her short film
Gfrasta won the Max Ophüls Award at the Saarbrücken Film Festival
in the short film category. Null Defizit, her next film, was
shown in the Official Selection-Cinéfondation section at the Festival of
Cannes in 2001.Struggle is her first full-length film. At the
moment, Ruth Mader is working on Peregrina, a documentary about migrant
workers.
FILMOGRAFIA
Endstation Obdachlos (mm, 1992), Kilometer 123,5 (cm,
1994), Ready For What (doc, 1997), Gfrasta (cm, 1999),
Null Defizit (cm, 2001), Struggle (2003).
Cast
& Credits
Regia, produzione/Director, producer: Ruth Mader
Soggetto, sceneggiatura/Story, screenplay: Ruth Mader, Martin Leidenfrost, Barbara Albert
Montaggio/Film editor: Niki Mossböck
Co-produzione/Co-production: Gabriele Kranzelbinder, Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu
Produzione/Production: Struggle Films
Soggetto, sceneggiatura/Story, screenplay: Ruth Mader, Martin Leidenfrost, Barbara Albert
Montaggio/Film editor: Niki Mossböck
Co-produzione/Co-production: Gabriele Kranzelbinder, Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu
Produzione/Production: Struggle Films
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