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Struggle
Critics' Choice
Social Criticism · Politics/Conspiracy · Labor
- CountryAustria
- Production Year2003
- Running Time74m
- Format35mm
- ColorCOLOR
Program Note
The struggle for existence, to earn a living, to subsist, to survive... The film unfolds in the realm of work: in strawberry fields, in factories, in offices, in cars, on the street. The protagonists are Ewa, an illegal immigrant from Poland who comes to Austria hoping to build a better life for herself and her daughter, and Marold, an emotionally isolated Viennese real estate agent with dangerous sexual tastes. Although not a documentary, it gives a detailed, precise and authentic description of the nature of work, capturing the nature and rhythm of manual labor, without losing respectful detachment from the persons being filmed. Director Madernotes, "What makes my film fundamentally different from others is that I′m not interested in bourgeois drama, I don′t want to show banal anxieties; my interest lies in the social conditions I want to make a statement about."
Director

Ruth MADER
Born in 1974 in Vienna, Austria, Ruth Mader studied directing at the Film Academy of Vienna, and has worked as assistant director and casting director on feature films and commercials. Her filmography includes the shorts Kilometer 123.5 (1994), Gfrasta (1999) and Null Defizit (2001), and the documentaries Endstation Obdachols (1992) and Ready for What (1997).
Credit
- Director
Ruth MADER - ProducerRuth Mader
- CastAleksandra Justa Gottfried Breitfub Martin Brambach Margit Wrobel Rainer Egger
- ScreenplayRuth Mader Martin Leidenfrost Barbara Albert
- CinematographyBernard Keller
- EditorNiki Mossbock
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