Nordrand Page #2

Synopsis: 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.
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Barbara Albert
Production: Fama Film
  8 wins & 7 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.2
Year:
1999
103 min
Website
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Dad is going crazy again.

You know, I thought...

I could stay with you for a while.

You know, G.R. really likes you.

Come on!

Seriously, he's hot for you.

Hi.

What about me staying here?

I'd like to discuss this

with you now.

There's plenty of time

to talk later.

It's much nicer at your place,

high up.

Not like at home on

the ground floor.

I'd love to live in a tower.

And you?

You can't stay here.

How often have I told you?

But it's big enough.

I'd do the shopping.

Listen, you can't stay here.

I don't want you to.

Don't you get that?

You walk in and want to move in.

What are you thinking?

I thought you liked me.

Yeah, so what?

Please,

I have to get out of there.

Stop it, will you?

- Please.

No!

You think I need you?

Screw you!

Screw yourself!

I've thought about keeping it.

What?

Dream on. You can't be serious.

Why?

Andrea from No 7, she was

only seventeen or sixteen.

Yeah, and?

Look what became of her.

It'd be different with me.

Come on, be realistic for once.

It won't work.

You and a kid? Imagine!

That's reaI responsibility.

Not just for eight months.

Nine months.

Whatever - but for 18 years.

Do you know what that means?

Have you ever thought of that?

At some point I'll want one anyway,

so why not now?

Yeah, but without me.

I don't need you anyway.

Many women raise their kids alone.

Then you'll come bawling to me,

wanting to move in.

Don't sh*t your pants -

it's not yours anyway.

What?

You've got a lot of nerve!

I never want to see you again!

Got that?

Don't need your bullshit.

I'm not your old man.

Bye.

You must decide fast.

I won't be here much longer.

I'm off to America.

You? America?

Will you send me a postcard?

Alright.

I'll take the tires.

I also need something

for my daughter.

A doll or something.

- Hang on.

Maybe I have something for her.

BeautifuI.

Sonja?

Are there any sweets left?

No.

Maybe in the fridge.

Pudding or something.

Never mind.

So?

Feeling anything yet?

- Stop it.

Don't be so hystericaI.

I'll be back in a week,

to take care of the three of us.

I don't want it.

What?

What do you mean?

I've thought about it.

Great.

You ever think about me?

You can't do that.

Don't be like that.

This isn't funny.

You'd have it

if it was Milan's, right?

What does that mean?

We've been through this.

Yeah, but now it's happened.

Once it's here,

things will be different.

I don't understand.

I thought what we have

is speciaI.

Not like with Milan.

Or maybe it's not mine?

Are you nuts?

What do you think of me?

I don't know.

Honestly, I don't know.

Do you have to do that?

I think I'll go now.

Please, feeI free.

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Barbara Albert

Barbara Albert (born 1970 in Vienna) is an Austrian writer, film-producer and film-director. She studied filmmaking at the Wiener Filmakademie. Her first film to become known to a larger audience was Nordrand, which describes the reality of life of Yugoslavian children in Vienna. She heads the production company Coop 99 with Jessica Hausner and Antonin Svoboda, among others. more…

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