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Limits of Europe (2024)

What is the price of western prosperity?

Genre : Documentary

Runtime : 1H 38M

Director : Apolena Rychlíková
Writer : Apolena Rychlíková

Synopsis

A prominent Czech journalist Saša Uhlová 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?

Actors

Saša Uhlová
Saša Uhlová
Self

Crews

Apolena Rychlíková
Apolena Rychlíková
Director
Apolena Rychlíková
Apolena Rychlíková
Screenplay
Apolena Rychlíková
Apolena Rychlíková
Story
Jan Šípek
Jan Šípek
Director of Photography
Kateřina Krutská-Vrbová
Kateřina Krutská-Vrbová
Editor
Martin Kuhn
Martin Kuhn
Sound
Pjoni
Pjoni
Original Music Composer
Klára Tasovská
Klára Tasovská
Dramaturgy
Tereza Horská
Tereza Horská
Producer
Vít Klusák
Vít Klusák
Producer
Filip Remunda
Filip Remunda
Producer
Olga Prud’homme Farges
Olga Prud’homme Farges
Co-Producer
Joël Farges
Joël Farges
Co-Producer
Peter Kerekes
Peter Kerekes
Co-Producer
Anna Mach Rumanová
Anna Mach Rumanová
Co-Producer

Posters and backgrounds

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