Northern Skirts

The story

Vienna, 1995. Jasmin, Tamara, Valentin, Senad and Roman live near the northern border of Austria. Their lives repeatedly intersect and drift apart. The characters involved are young migrants from the former Yugoslavia, Romania, Poland and Austria itself. Strangers in a strange land, they feel a sense of loss in their new, temporary environment. The five-some meet and get close to each other, hopelessly clinging to friendships and relationships with no future. They frequent cafés and train stations dreaming of a better tomorrow. Often, they just fall back on the prospect of short-term affection in yet another doomed romantic or sexual encounter. Trying hard to suppress the memories of war and alienation, they try to find moral strength and warmth through one another.

Cast

N Nina ProllJasmin Schmid E Edita MalovčićTamara A Astrit AlihajdarajSenad T Tudor ChirilăValentin M Michael TanczosRoman B Brigitte KrenGitti G Georg FriedrichWolfgang M Martina StojanSonja M Marta KlubowiczJolanta M Margarethe TieselJasmin's Mother A Andreas ZornJasmin's Father R Raphaela KeneseiNicole

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S Stefan KeneseiThomas M Markus HauerRene I Iva BagarićMarina S Stefan BernhardMichi G Gerhard KasalThe long one (Der Lange) N Nicholas OfczarekG. R. S Susanna FussValentin's grandmother R Ratka KrstulovićTamara's Mother A Alan PerimposicAlexander L Liana FersediAlexandrina E Enzo ScanziRocco V Viktor WentyTruck driver M Martin SchenkelJasmin's supervisor A Amelie HuartJasmin (as a child) D Diana JovanovicTamara (as a child) K Kurt Dietl M Milada Grujic A Alfons R. Karg J Jörgen Kubitschek