Curious to find this one in the local Czech Film Festival, a film made in Vienna Bratislava and Berlin with a German star who speaks her own laguage and English for most of the picture.
Confusingly we get severe featured Wokalek (Gudrun Ensslin in Der Baader Meinhof Komplex) arriving alone. It's not long before she's bare assed with pick ups and hocking her no receipt jewelery to get by. About this time bearded public defender Hans-Jochen Wagner is trying to get through to his German kid client, whose attack put a black refugee into a coma. The boy's parents can't see that he did anything wrong.
Wagner's having single parent problems with the daughter who he catches smoking (what?) with a boy in the family home. His solution of going on a reality TV program to ask for information on his missing wife reveals that it's Wokalek.
Turns out through conversations with her new sex worker friends (their explicit show is seen) that she left home for a lover and that didn't work out. She settles in to being a hotel maid, getting a buzz out of having to dress a bed that Vladimir Putin once slept in and we get a flash back to her earlier home life with then clean shaven Wagner suggesting why she's off seeking freiheit.
There's half a dozen story leads set up but none are worked out in the piece's hundred minutes. It's not exactly thrilling. Performances and diffused (the other Czech-S trailers looked like that too) 'Scope film making are good and the unfamiliar settings are occasionally attention getting but the over all inconclusiveness contributes to a feeling of time wasted.
Confusingly we get severe featured Wokalek (Gudrun Ensslin in Der Baader Meinhof Komplex) arriving alone. It's not long before she's bare assed with pick ups and hocking her no receipt jewelery to get by. About this time bearded public defender Hans-Jochen Wagner is trying to get through to his German kid client, whose attack put a black refugee into a coma. The boy's parents can't see that he did anything wrong.
Wagner's having single parent problems with the daughter who he catches smoking (what?) with a boy in the family home. His solution of going on a reality TV program to ask for information on his missing wife reveals that it's Wokalek.
Turns out through conversations with her new sex worker friends (their explicit show is seen) that she left home for a lover and that didn't work out. She settles in to being a hotel maid, getting a buzz out of having to dress a bed that Vladimir Putin once slept in and we get a flash back to her earlier home life with then clean shaven Wagner suggesting why she's off seeking freiheit.
There's half a dozen story leads set up but none are worked out in the piece's hundred minutes. It's not exactly thrilling. Performances and diffused (the other Czech-S trailers looked like that too) 'Scope film making are good and the unfamiliar settings are occasionally attention getting but the over all inconclusiveness contributes to a feeling of time wasted.