

Life Guidance
2018-01-12 · 101 min · ★ 4.7
The film is set in the near future, in a world of perfect capitalism. Society is sustained by a class of top achievers; meanwhile, so-called minimum recipients live under sedation in Fortresses of Sleep. The great majority of top achievers view themselves as happy. An outsourced agency has been established for the rest: Life Guidance is charged with turning these individuals into optimal people as well. Alexander has internalized the system but one wrong word to his child triggers Life Guidance. He starts to rebel and encounters the horror of the system in all its brightness and affability.
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- Directors
- Ruth Mader
- Production companies
- KGP Kranzelbinder Gabriele Production, ORF
- Countries
- Austria
- Status
- Released
Top Cast
Fritz KarlAlexander Dworsky
Katharina LorenzAnna Dworsky
Petra MorzéIris Brauer
Kristina BangertBankangestellte
Rainer EggerBuchhalter
Arno FrischHarter Kollege
Peter KnaackBester Freund
Florian TeichtmeisterGregor Fainmann
Alexander StrobeleHans Georg Croy
Udo SamelGrundherr
Johann Adam OestMann mit Pelzbezug
Angelika StrahserErgotherapeutin
Arno FrischPatrick
Martin NiedermairDer Dynamische
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