Free Radicals (2003)

A young Austrian survives the crash of a commercial airliner. Six years later, she's a clerk, a mother, happy. Then she dies in a car accident. Over the next year, we follow her daughter, ... See full summary »

Director:

Barbara Albert

Writer:

Barbara Albert

Stars:

Kathrin Resetarits, Ursula Strauss, Georg Friedrich

2 nominations.

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 Hartl	...	Kai (as Dominik Hartel)
Nicole Skala	...	Gabi
Deborah Ten Brink	...	Yvonne, Manu's daughter
Alfred Worel	...	Josef

Storyline

A young Austrian survives the crash of a commercial airliner. Six years later, she's a clerk, a mother, happy. Then she dies in a car accident. Over the next year, we follow her daughter, who goes through various medical blood tests, her husband, her best friend who's been having an affair with her husband, her sister who trades sex for shelter, her brother and his hesitant friendship with an emotionally-locked clerk at a pharmacy, the clerk's lonely mother, an unpopular high-school student with bad skin, and the boy she may connect with, who was driving the car in the fatal crash. In happenstance are there patterns? In life is there meaning?

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Plot Keywords:

watching tv | sex | friendship | friend | boy | 

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Genres:

Drama | Romance

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Details

Official Sites:

Official site [Austria]

Country:

Austria Germany Switzerland

Language:

German

Release Date:

21 November 2003 (Austria)

Also Known As:

Free Radicals

Filming Locations:

Bratislava, Slovakia

Box Office

Opening Weekend USA:

$1,443, 25 July 2004

Gross USA:

$1,443

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$80,371

Company Credits

Production Co:

Coop99 Filmproduktion, Fama Film AG, zero südwest GmbH

Technical Specs

Runtime:

120 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby SR

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Connections

Features Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten (1992)

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Soundtracks

Macarena
Written by Rafael Ruiz and Antonio Romero
Performed by Los del Río

User Reviews

Free radicals

This Austrian movie has reached Sweden recently. It's the "Short Cuts" concept again, but that form seems to inspire script writers and directors to great achievements.

This is about the post consuming area. The phase when everybody seems to accept the society they are living in without protest. But typical for that area is the frustration which finds it way otherwise.

Because everybody is unhappy here. Whatever their goals are, friendship, love, a dead mother, everything is a disappointment. Nothing can be reached. And the point is that nothing is their own fault. The people are not blamed and that's hopeful and maybe a prediction of what is to follow after the consumerism era is over.