IN DIE WELT

A maternity clinic in Vienna is the setting of Constantin Wulff's documentary In die Welt. In the tradition of Direct Cinema the film dispenses entirely with commentary, interviews and music, and any kind of exposition at all: The viewer is merely placed in the middle of the action. Thanks to the art of editing, fascinating observations and microdramas of everyday life are assembled into larger themes that go far beyond a simple portrait of a medical clinic, becoming in a sense a portrait of society as it relates to birth.