FREE RADICALS
Drama | AUT, GER, CHE | 2003 | 120 min
SYNOPSIS
A butterfly flaps its’ wings and, following the effects of chaos theory this causes a tornado over the Gulf of Mexico in turn instigating a terrible plane crash. Fate dictates entirely at random that 24-year-old Manu is the miraculous sole survivor. Five years later Manu goes about her business in a small Austrian town working in the local supermarket. The life shared with her husband, daughter, siblings and friends stretches out through associations old and new, deliberate and accidental in an interlocking web of relationships creating a constant flux of cause and effect.
The destinies of all those caught in this web, rely on the choices each of them make. Often these choices result in love, understanding, and happiness but just as frequently they result in guilt, anguish and even death.
CAST
Kathrin Resetarits
Ursula Strauss
Georg Friedrich
Marion Mitterhammer
Martin Brambach
CREW
Director Barbara Albert
Script Barbara Albert
Director of Photography Martin Gschlacht
Editing Monika Willi
Artdirector Katharina Wöppermann
Costume Monika Buttinger
Producers Antonin Svoboda, Martin Gschlacht, Barbara Albert, Bruno Wagner, Martin Hagemann, Rolf Schmid
Production coop99, zero west, Fama Film
SELECTION FESTIVALS / AWARDS
Festival del Film Locarno 2003: in Competition