Story
Europe in the not too distant future: capitalism has perfected itself and developed an enthusiastic class of achievers to keep it going. They live placid middle-class lives, are happy and fulfilled. Most of them. For everyone else, there’s the Life Guidance agency, whose task it is to get problem cases back on track. Alexander, a performer in the financial sector, is just such a candidate. He starts to resist and is promptly confronted with the smiling terror of the system. Ruth Mader has created a distopia which despite the bizarre humour is uncomfortably familiar in the face of today’s debates about transparency and self-optimisation.
Director
RUTH MADER (*1974) has been making shorts and documentaries since the early 1990s and has been successful at numerous festivals. Life Guidance was shown in competition at his year's Venice International Film Festival.Trailer
Info
Life Guidance
Fiction Feature
German
Veto!//FF2017
Austria
2017
101 min
OV with English subtitles
Ruth Mader
Ruth Mader, Martin Leidenfrost
Fritz Karl, Katharina Lorenz, Florian Teichtmeister
Gabriele Kranzelbinder
Christina A. Maier
Niki Mossböck
Manfred Plessl
Renate Martin, Andreas Donhauser
Picture Tree International GmbH
KGP Kranzelbinder Gabriele Production
Yuanyuan Rothbauer, Picture Tree International GmbH: yuan@picturetree-international.com