Breathing (2011)

Original title

Atmen

Directed by

Karl Markovics

Genre

drama film

Country

Austria

Runtime

1h 30m

Rated

14

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 53 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A 19-year-old inmate in a juvenile detention facility gets a work-release job at a morgue. He struggles with his past and his identity as he hopes for parole.

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What happens

Breathing (German: Atmen) is a 2011 Austrian art house drama film written and directed by Karl Markovics. The film concerns a 19-year-old inmate in a detention facility for juveniles, with a pending application for parole, who is challenged to reconsider his identity by a trial work-release job at a morgue. Starring Thomas Schubert, Karin Lischka and Gerhard Liebmann, it was screened at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. Schubert won Best Actor at the 17th Sarajevo Film Festival for his performance, presented to him by Angelina Jolie. The film was selected as Austria's submission to the 84th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film, but it did not make the final shortlist. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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