SOLLBRUCHSTELLE

There is Franz, suing the company that has made him redundant after fourty years. Then, for nine months, he holds out in an empty office with nothing to do. There is Stephan who, for eight days and nights, sits on a chair that is part of a giant billboard. Selling yourself is sometimes the quickest way to pay your debts. There is Saskia, the high school graduate, learning how to put together the perfect application. There is Gunnar who is being taught that perceiving your own body as trademark is the key to success. Franz finally wins his lawsuit only to realise he has lost all the same. Sollbruchstelle is a film about the passion to work.
«This is the inventory of a town, no matter what kind of town in the Western liberal economy, from the point of view of work. With an astonishing ease of approach to even eccentric characters, Eva Stotz constructs a stylized geography of the urban space. She succeeds in spotting the kinds and forces of work that flourish or founder there, that develop with illusions and naivety.» (Jean Perret)