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6.4/10   344 votes
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Director:
Barbara Albert
Writer:
Barbara Albert (writer)
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Release Date:
21 November 2003 (Austria) more
Genre:
Drama | Romance more
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Awards:
2 nominations more
User Comments:
interesting as an intellectual exercise, less so as a drama more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Kathrin Resetarits ... Manu
Ursula Strauss ... Andrea, Manu's best friend
Georg Friedrich ... Andreas, Manu's husband
Marion Mitterhammer ... Gerlinde, Manu's sister
Martin Brambach ... Reini, Manu's brother
Rupert L. Lehofer ... Lukas
Bellinda Akwa-Asare ... Sandra
Gabriela Schmoll ... Belinda, Sandra's Mother
Christian Ghera ... Heinrich

Karl Fischer ... Karl
Désirée Ourada ... Patricia
Dominik Hartel ... Kai
Nicole Skala ... Gabi
Deborah Ten Brink ... Yvonne, Manu's daughter
Alfred Worel ... Josef
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Free Radicals (Europe: English title) (International: English title)
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Runtime:
120 min
Language:
German
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby SR
Filming Locations:
Bratislava, Slovakia more
Company:
Coop 99 more

Fun Stuff

Movie Connections:
Features "Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten" (1992) more
Soundtrack:
Macarena more

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1 out of 3 people found the following comment useful:-
interesting as an intellectual exercise, less so as a drama, 25 January 2006
6/10
Author: Roland E. Zwick (magneteach@aol.com) from United States

"Free Radicals" is a stark, slow-moving meditation on the randomness of life. Matching style to theme, this Austrian film relates a half dozen or so barely connected stories, all of which deal with the part fate and luck play in determining the direction of our lives. In some cases, the characters are the victims of accidents or illness, while in others they becomes prisoners of their own needs and desires. In all the cases, however, the characters live a drab, loveless existence, filled with unfulfilled dreams and loneliness.

Although the film begins with an interesting premise, the overall effect is so off-putting and depressing that we really can't enjoy the movie on anything but the most purely intellectual level. The people here just seem so miserable and unhappy that we want to get away from them as quickly as possible and head back to our own lives, imperfect though they might be. Perhaps by including so many characters, the film dilutes its focus, making it hard for us to fully identify with any one person and make us care about his or her fate. Despite good acting, this crazy quilt approach turns the movie into more of a clinical exercise than a deeper involving human drama, and lends it an air of greater pretentiousness than it might otherwise have had.

Enter the world of "Free Radicals" if you must, but you might want to take some Prozac along with you to help get you through it.

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