Northern Skirts (1999)
1h 43m
Running Time
August 31, 1999Release Date
Northern Skirts (1999)
1h 43m
Running Time
August 31, 1999Release Date
Plot.
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.
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Cast & Crew.
Nina Proll
Jasmin Schmid
Edita Malovčić
Tamara
Astrit Alihajdaraj
Senad
Tudor Chirilă
Valentin
Michael Tanczos
Roman
Georg Friedrich
Wolfgang
Martina Stojan
Sonja
Marta Klubowicz
Jolanta
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Wiki.
Northern Skirts (German: Nordrand) is a 1999 German-language film directed by Barbara Albert. It was an international co-production between Austria, Germany, and Switzerland. It was Austria's official Best Foreign Language Film submission at the 72nd Academy Awards, but did not manage to receive a nomination. The film addresses the marginalisation of the Vienna's migrant and ethnic minority population against the background of rising xenophobia encouraged by Joerg Haider and the so-called Freedom Party.