Lillian, stranded as an emigrant in New York, wants to walk back to her native Russia. Determined, she sets out on the long journey. A road movie across the United States into the cold of Alaska. The chronicle of a slow disappearance.
Cinematography
America shot like an alien planet, gorgeous and indifferent.
Acting
Płanik's wordless performance — exhaustion as art.
Direction
Horvath's refusal to explain anything, ever.
Director
Andreas Horvath
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Patrycja Płanik actually walked much of the route during filming, sleeping in character. Method acting taken to its physical extreme.
The real Lillian was a Russian emigrant in 1927 whose story Horvath discovered in archives; he deliberately stripped away historical specificity to make her Every-Stranger.
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