Narrative Short, OV German with English Subtitles, AT 2025, 19’47”
The haulage company LKW Kovacs, where truck driver Walter works, is being digitalised after the junior boss takes over. The changeover in the company does not go as planned, worlds and world views collide.
By spontaneously changing his route on the day of his daughter Jenny’s football final, Walter makes a decision whose consequences will fundamentally change his view of society and politics.
written & directed by Barbara Wolfram & Paulus Wagner
shot by Anna Haderer, produced by Jakob Serdaroglu, Film Academy Vienna/ mdw
Based on real events and extensive biographical interviews by Paulus Wagner.
FESTIVALS
Diagonale 2025 – Worldpremiere
VIS 2025
Hofer Filmtage 2025
CAST
Walter – Thomas Frank
Petra – Isabella Knöll
Gerlinde – Birgit Linauer
Stephanie – Laura Rauch
Jenny – Nancy Lechner
Sebo – Thomas Momcinovic
Tanja – Corinna Pumm
Truck driver 1 – Amin Khawary
Truck driver 2 – Fahim Heydari
Mia – Riko Kontarato
Driver Bar 1 – Stefan Veit
Driver Bar 2 – Norbert Bayer
Innkeeper – Viktoria Wenusch
Radio Presenter – Caro Picker
Voice Milan – Julian Loidl
CREW
Writer/Director – Barbara Wolfram & Paulus Wagner
DoP – Anna Haderer
Sound – Clara Köberl
Lighting – Valentin Maurer
Set design – Momo Maresch
Costume design – Rita Landgrebe
Script – Olivia Kranner
Make-up – Oana Balodis, Victoria Kirchner
Editing – Jonathan Meiri
Sound design and mixing – Inanna Palikruschev
Colour grading – Susi Dollnig
Production and film management –
Jakob Serdaroglu
Production management and film management – Anna Rottensteiner
Driver Training – Norbert Bayer, Hans Peter Edlmayr, Michael Frank, David Klaubetz, Peta Klotzberg, Christian Pamer, Gernot Tscherkassky, Stefan Veit
Football Player – Oleg Galevski, Sarah Göschl, Viktoria Hieß, Lorenz Mahler-Hutter, Cedric Jona Wandera
Visitors Football Match – Ronja Abl, Belinda Angjeli, Andreas Balbach, Anita Coman, Herwig Denk, Hans Peter Edlmayr, Barbara Göschl, Günther Hieß, Maryna Hulbova, Andreas Klaus, Monika Kutalek, Daniela Lechner, Mary Ann Mestanek, Irmgard Mühlwerth, Monika Swete, Alina Toifl, Dani Univazo. Alfred Vodusek. Ursula Vodusek, Ronny
Visitor Bar – Manuela Cee, Wolfram Hermann-Hubler, Anna Nazareva, Manuel Neubauer, Friedrich Woda
Partypeople Street – Moritz Knöll, Theodor Reinisch
1st AD – Bibiana Rackova
2nd AD – Vivian Bausch
Production manager – Anna Rottensteiner
Set Manager – Ahmet Damar
BTS photographer – Mark Gering
1st AC – Jonas Heuwieser, Konstantin John, Benjamin Fieber, Germaine Haller
2nd AC – David Klaubetz. Marie Hieret, Elias Van Gils
Bestboy – Michael Bachinger
Lighting technicians – Dave Wagershauser, Jonas Heuwieser, Konstantin John, Luca Horak
Sound assistants – Cordula Rieger, Elias Van Gils, Jonas Heuwieser
Set design assistance – Anna Nazareva, Feyz Rakhmanov
Production assistance – Merlin Hausner, Jakob Silye, Johannes Blanchenstein, Thorsten Eckhardt
Poster Design – Laura Reither
Over 150 people in Austria and Germany who agreed to share their experiences in interviews for Paulus Wagner’s dissertation from 2017-2019.
Funded by:
Film Academy Vienna, City of Vienna Culture Ma-7, mdw
Created as part of the Ma-7 project: Building Bridges in Polarised Societies by means of arts and research. Film – Vienna – working class milieu – right-wing populism (2021-2025) at Film Academy Vienna/ mdw.
Distribution:
LEMONADE FILMS
Marija Milovanovic
Fanny Marie Berghofer
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