Julian Roman Pölsler and Martina Gedeck, The Wall

62nd Berlin International Film Festival Special: Veteran Austrian TV director Julian Roman Polsler makes his feature film debut with a nervy, enthralling adaptation of Marlon Haushofer’s international bestseller "The Wall." Her fifth book, "The Wall," published in 1963, was not a success in the author’s lifetime – she died in 1970 – but it has been translated into 19 languages, was awarded the Arthur Schnitzler Prize and is a basic text of the emancipation and freedom movement in both Austria and Germany as it tells of a woman mysteriously isolated by an invisible force field – the wall – in a picturesque Austrian mountaintop. Her diary reveals her physical and spiritual journey as she deals with the instantaneous loss of security and prosperity.

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