Limits of Europe

What is the price of western prosperity?

Hranice Evropy
Czechia, France, Slovakia 2024
  • Czech
  • English
99 min.
Přístupný
  • This film is available until 31. 12. 2025 in these territories: Czechia.
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A prominent Czech journalist leaves her family and joins “cheap labour force” in Western Europe. Undercover, she works at an asparagus farm in Germany, tries her hand as a maid at a hotel in Ireland and takes care of the elderly in France. She experiences first-hand the struggles of Eastern European low-wage workers whose sacrifice and hard work allow for the Western society’s comfort. What is the real price that Europe pays for exploiting its own citizens? How do the lives of economic migrants, who have been forced to leave their children and elderly parents, look like? And why are privileged Europeans looking the other way?

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Credits
Director: Apolena Rychlíková
Screenplay: Apolena Rychlíková
Cinematography: Jan Šípek, Petr Racek
Music: Jonatan Pastirčák
Sound: Martin Kuhn
Editing: Kateřina Krutská Vrbová
Producer: Tereza Horská, Vít Klusák, Filip Remunda
Co-production: Olga Prud‘homme Farges, Joël Farges, Peter Kerekes, Anna Mach Rumanová
Cast: Saša Uhlová, Tomáš Tožička
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  • This film is available until 31. 12. 2025 in these territories: Czechia.