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LIFE GUIDANCE

By Ruth MADER

Thriller - Completed 2017

The film is set in the near future, in a world of perfect capitalism. Alexander, an exponent of the performing middle class, starts to rebel. He gets confronted with the horror of the system in all its friendliness and brightness.

Festivals
& Awards

Venice Film Festival 2017

Transilvania IFF 2018

FIPRESCI-Prize

- Year of production
- 2017
- Genres
- Thriller, Science-fiction
- Countries
- AUSTRIA
- Languages
- GERMAN
- Duration
- 101 mn
- Director(s)
- Ruth MADER
- Writer(s)
- Ruth MADER
- Cast
- Fritz KARL, Katharina LORENZ, Florian TEICHTMEISTER
- Producer(s)
- Gabriele KRANZELBINDER (KGP KRANZELBINDER GABRIELE PRODUCTION GMBH), Barbara PICHLER (KGP KRANZELBINDER GABRIELE PRODUCTION GMBH)
- Synopsis
- The Film is set in the near future, in a world that has achieved a perfected state of capitalism. Society is sustained by a class of top achievers. These cheerfully motivated people populate a bright, friendly, transparent and efficient middle-class world. Meanwhile, so-called minimum recipients live under sedation in Fortresses of Sleep. The great majority of top achievers view themselves as happy and self-fulfilled. An outsourced agency has been established for the rest: Life Guidance is charged with turning these individuals into optimal people as well.
  Alexander is a member of the middle class and works in the financial sector. Like the others, he has internalized the system. But one wrong word to his child is enough to trigger Life Guidance. An agent from Life Guidance counsels him about attaining his optimal potential and increasingly encroaches on Alexander’s life. Alexander starts to rebel and soon encounters the horror of the system in all its brightness and affability.

LIFE GUIDANCE

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