I Understand Your Displeasure Ich verstehe Ihren Unmut Focus © Wenn Dann Film
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Think you have a stressful job? Try trading places with Heike (Sabine Thalau), the overworked, underpaid manager of a cleaning crew. In addition to supervising harried workers, she does much of the same work they do: mopping, wiping, hauling, and more. She also has to placate angry clients, colleagues, and superiors, all of whom are frequently at her neck. Faced with harassment and threats from above, Heike is forced to make a hard decision regarding a vulnerable worker — one that constitutes a double betrayal and turns a good friend against her
Director Kilian Armando Friedrich draws on his own time as a cleaner and utilizes a cast of non-professionals with similar experience. These include lead actor Thalau, who demonstrates the hardship of her labours superbly: every exhausted breath, every arduous lift, every plea or order uttered registers its cost on her body and soul. I Understand Your Displeasure is a film of urgent, intense realism, and it imbues its embattled characters with a special dignity.
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Think you have a stressful job? Try trading places with Heike (Sabine Thalau), the overworked, underpaid manager of a cleaning crew. In addition to supervising harried workers, she does much of the same work they do: mopping, wiping, hauling, and more. She also has to placate angry clients, colleagues, and superiors, all of whom are frequently at her neck. Faced with harassment and threats from above, Heike is forced to make a hard decision regarding a vulnerable worker — one that constitutes a double betrayal and turns a good friend against her
Director Kilian Armando Friedrich draws on his own time as a cleaner and utilizes a cast of non-professionals with similar experience. These include lead actor Thalau, who demonstrates the hardship of her labours superbly: every exhausted breath, every arduous lift, every plea or order uttered registers its cost on her body and soul. I Understand Your Displeasure is a film of urgent, intense realism, and it imbues its embattled characters with a special dignity.
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