Dir. Nikolaus Geyrhalter - 2012 - Austria - Subtitles in English
A portrait of one of Europe’s largest hospitals, shows the daily routines and work processes at a powerful and highly complex institution. By depicting a modern healthcare facility, DANUBE HOSPITAL holds a mirror to our society to show how it deals with health and illness, life and death.
Nikolaus Geyrhalter observes what goes on in a variety of zones, in conference areas, ORs, patients’ rooms, the disinfection and pathology departments, and the kitchen. As the film visits all these areas, it follows an ingenious principle of a puzzle whose pieces produce an effect only when fully assembled.
A portrait of an institution in which the relationships between processes that are invisible to patients and visitors are shown in all their precision.
A film about Europe in the early 21st century.
Dir. Nikolaus Geyrhalter - 90min - 2011 - Austria - Subtitles in English.
Dir. Nikolaus Geyrhalter - 2011 - Austria - Subtitles in English
A film poem about a continent at night, a culture on which the sun’s going down, though it’s hyper alert at the same time, an “Abendland” that, often somewhat self-obsessively, sees itself as the crown of human civilization, while ...
A documentary about populism and its absurd consequences.
Dir. Nikolaus Geyrhalter - 112min - 2018 - Austria.
