Mit Verlust ist zu rechnen

Widower Sepp and widow Paula meet at the border between Austria and the Czech Republic, shortly after the fall of the Iron Curtain. One of Ulrich Seidl’s most tender films – on loneliness, love unfulfilled and the loss of youth. Winter, 1992. Widower Sepp lives in a small Austrian village on the border with the Czech Republic. The meals his deceased wife left in the freezer are slowly running out. Time then for Sepp to look around for a new wife. His gaze wanders across the border – where widow Paula lives. Sepp is looking for a woman to look after him, and offers Paula a somewhat more carefree – in a material sense – existence, with full supermarkets and shopping malls. Paula is impressed by all this prosperity over…