Martina Gedeck best known for her performance in the Academy Award-winning film The Lives Of Others now stars in The Wall a contemporary female Robinson Crusoe story. Based on Marlen Haushofer's best-selling eponymous novel from the 1960s the film is a highly original exploration of the experience of solitude and survival. Gedeck plays an unnamed Austrian woman who goes to a secluded Alpine hunting lodge with her cousin (Ulrike Beimpold) and the latter's husband (Karl Heinz Hackl) who shortly after their arrival decide to visit the nearest village. When the... couple does not return the next morning the woman sets out for the village and discovers an invisible wall behind which there appears to be no sign of life. The wall now separates her from the rest of the world. Left behind with a dog a cat and a cow she must try to survive alone in the forest. She keeps a record of her thoughts her fears and the hardship she suffers although nobody might ever read her outpourings. Martina Gedeck's outstanding performance brings the role to a rare and vivid intensity. Special Features: Trailer English voiced version [show more]
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play. Martina Gedeck, best known for her performance in the Academy Award-winning film THE LIVES OF OTHERS, now stars in THE WALL, a contemporary female Robinson Crusoe story. Based on Marlen Haushofer's best-selling eponymous novel from the 1960s, the film is a highly original exploration of the experience of solitude and survival. Gedeck plays an unnamed Austrian woman who goes to a secluded Alpine hunting lodge with her cousin (Ulrike Beimpold) and the latter's husband (Karl Heinz Hackl) who, shortly after their arrival, decide to visit the nearest village. When the couple does not return the next morning the woman sets out for the village and discovers an invisible wall, behind which there appears to be no sign of life. The wall now separates her from the rest of the world. Left behind with a dog, a cat and a cow, she must try to survive alone in the forest. She keeps a record of her thoughts, her fears and the hardship she suffers although nobody might ever read her outpourings. Martina Gedeck's outstanding performance brings the role to a rare and vivid intensity.
Existential drama starring Martina Gedeck. An unnamed woman (Gedeck) travels to a secluded alpine lodge with family friends who shortly afterwards journey on to a nearby village, leaving her behind. The next morning when she awakes with no sign of her friends she grows worried at their disappearance and decides to go out and search for them. While out walking, however, she is confronted by an invisible wall which divides her from the rest of the world. With only her dog Lynx as a companion she is forced to live a life of isolation and with provisions quickly running out she also must learn to live off the land while forever at the mercy of the laws of nature.
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