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THE GROUND BENEATH MY FEET

Lola is a jetsetting business consultant who excels at the aggressive tactics and nonstop work her job requires. She travels back and forth from Vienna, where her tasteful apartment serves more as mailbox and laundromat than home, to the headquarters of the latest corporation she’s restructuring. Her routine is one of late nights at the office, fancy client dinners and brief nights of sleep in sterile hotel rooms. Approaching 30, Lola is beautiful, works out, and her career seems on a fast track to success.
Lola manages her personal life with the same ruthless efficiency she uses to optimize profit margins. She keeps her relationship with her boss Elise secret, as well as the existence of her older sister Conny, who has a long history of mental illness. But when she receives the news that Conny has attempted suicide, Lola's secrets threaten to explode into the open. As she tries to do what's best for her sister without jeopardizing all she's worked so hard for, Lola slowly finds her own grip on reality slipping away.

  • Marie Kreutzer
    Director
    THE FATHERLESS (2011), GRUBER IS LEAVING (2015), WE USED TO BE COOL (2016), EMERGENCY LIES (2017)
  • Alexander Glehr
    Producer
  • Franz Novotny
    Producer
  • Valerie Pachner
    Key Cast
  • Pia Hierzegger
    Key Cast
  • Mavie Hörbiger
    Key Cast
  • Michelle Barthel
    Key Cast
  • Marc Benjamin
    Key Cast
  • Axel Sichrovsky
    Key Cast
  • Dominic Marcus Singer
    Key Cast
  • Meo Wulf
    Key Cast
  • Project Type:
    Feature
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 48 minutes
  • Country of Origin:
    Austria
  • Language:
    German
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Berlinale

    Competition
Distribution Information
  • Picture Tree International
    Rights: All Rights
Director Biography - Marie Kreutzer

Marie Kreutzer was born in Graz, Austria, in 1977 and studied screenwriting at the Film Academy Vienna. Her first feature length film, THE FATHERLESS, premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in the Panorama Special sidebar in 2011, receiving Special Mention for ‘Best First Feature‘. Her second film, GRUBER IS LEAVING (2015),
was nominated for the Austrian Film Award and won Special Mention as ‘Best Film‘ at the Zurich Film Festival. In 2016, her third feature film WE USED TO BE COOL also premiered at the Zurich
Film Festival in competition. After finalizing her first TV movie EMERGENCY LIES starring Josef Hader in 2017, THE GROUND BENEATH MY FEET is Marie Kreutzer’s newest feature film as
writer and director.

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