87 mins/1998

    Nana Iaschwili, a refugee from the former Soviet Union on her way to the US, is arrested in transit at Vienna airport because she has a forged American visa. Before she can be deported, she manages to escape and travels illegally throughout Austria for five days, ostensibly as a tourist, constantly changing her travelling companions, means of transportation and living quarters. One of the people who helps her during her travels is Herbert Korn, a shy vacationer.

    The police begin a search for Nana and circulate her photograph. She loses her baggage and money and tries to get into Germany and go underground. Accompanied by a bank robber on the run, she makes it to the border but fails to cross over. The manager of a mountain lodge gives her shelter and would be only too happy if she stayed on. But Nana has other plans.

Credits:-

Directed by Florian Flicker

Cast:

Birgit Doll (Nana), August Zirner (Herbert Korn), Wolfram Berger (Mountain lodge manager), Karl Ferdinand Kratzl (Fugitive)

    Florian Flicker, 33, started his career as a lighting technician and assistant director in 1984 and went on to make several documentary films. Five years later he founded the ‘Pension Export’ group and developed various film projects in the Expanded Cinema genre. His first feature film, Halbe Welt, (1993) received awards at festivals in France and Germany. He has also won the Carl Mayer Screenplay Award for Suzie Washington.