Lola controls her personal life with the same ruthless efficiency she uses to optimize profits in her job as a business consultant. But when a tragic event forces the past back into her life, Lola's grip on reality seems to slips away.
Acting
Pachner's physicality—watch her hands, always doing, never resting.
Direction
Kreutzer's clinical framing makes anxiety feel architectural.
Editing
The running motif cuts like intrusive thoughts you can't shake.
Director
Marie Kreutzer
Valerie Pachner
Lola
Pia Hierzegger
Conny
Mavie Hörbiger
Elise
Michelle Barthel
Birgit
Marc Benjamin
Sebastian
Axel Sichrovsky
Mr. Bacher
Dominic Marcus Singer
Jürgen
Axel Wandtke
Mr. Giese
Martina Eitner-Acheampong
Mrs. Lubitiz
Susann Uplegger
Mrs. Tanninger
Lilly Marie Tschörtner
Mrs. Rennecke
Florian Reiners
Bank Representative
Regina Fritsch
Dr. Lederer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of a wave of Austrian cinema (Seidl, Hausner, Kreutzer) that treats middle-class professionalism as its own genre of body horror.
Kreutzer based Lola's compulsive running on real consulting culture where exhaustion becomes a competitive sport.
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