THE WALL IN SOUTH AFRICA

Product Description Martina Gedeck, best known for her performance in the AcademyAward-winning film THE LIVES OF OTHERS, now stars in THE WALL, acontemporary female Robinson Crusoe story. Based on Marlen Haushofer sbest-selling eponymous novel from the 1960s, the film is a highlyoriginal exploration of the experience of solitude and survival. Gedeck plays an unnamed Austrian woman who goes to a secluded Alpinehunting lodge with her cousin (Ulrike Beimpold) and the latter'shusband (Karl Heinz Hackl) who, shortly after their arrival, decide tovisit the nearest village. When the couple does not return the nextmorning the woman sets out for the village and discovers an invisiblewall, behind which there appears to be no sign of life. The wall nowseparates her from the rest of the world. Left behind with a dog, a catand a cow, she must try to survive alone in the forest. She keeps arecord of her thoughts, her fears and the hardship she suffers althoughnobody might ever read her outpourings. Martina Gedeck's outstandingperformance brings the role to a rare and vivid intensity.