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Loss Is to Be Expected

Original title: Mit Verlust ist zu rechnen
Year: 1992
Running time: 118 min.
Country: Austria
Director: Ulrich Seidl
Screenwriter: Michael Glawogger, Ulrich Seidl
Cast: Documentary, Self: Paul Hutterová, Vladimir Kundrát, Rusena Machaloyá, Alois Paur, Sepp Paur, Miroslav Sedlar, Stepánká Srámkoyá
Cinematography: Peter Zeitlinger
Producer: Lotus Film
Genre: Documentary | Old Age / Elderly
Synopsis: The main character of the documentary is the 60+ retired Austrian who's just lost his wife and is looking for a new one across the Austrian-Czech border. He is very lonely and needs somebody to share his last years with. He uses all the tricks to lure Paula, who lives in Czech Republic, into his nets. He shows her an Austrian supermarket, an Austrian shopping mall, takes her to a fair in the nearby town, etc. Whatever the characters do is so recognizable, beginning with a conversation of the 60+ widows about the sex, and ending with complaints of a village idiot about the communists who failed to repaired his window and cupboard.

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Loss Is to Be Expected

1992

Ulrich Seidl