'A report on the insanity of normalcy.' This is how Austrian filmmaker Ulrich Seidl described his portrait of residents of Vienna carving a path for themselves through everyday life. Here the world of the newspaper vendors, there the world of the newspaper readers in their Austrian living rooms.
Newspaper vendors in the streets of Vienna are often young men from countries such as India, Pakistan, Turkey or Egypt. Seidl follows these men, not only on the streets where they work, but also in the places where they live and where they congregate. He contrasts these worlds with that of the Austrians who read the papers they sell.
Ulrich Seidl: "I wasn’t interested in making a film to expose the machinations of a newspaper conglomerate, one intended solely to awaken viewers’ compassion for…
