The story of two people who have nothing in common but share everything for just a few hours.
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An elderly citizen aids a refugee migrant. The premise was used in Aki Kaurismaki’s THE OTHER SIDE OF HOPE and re-visited again in this Austrian version entitled NOBADI. Here, a grumpy old white man enlists the help of an Afghani migrant to bury his dead dog.
As expected, the two dredge through prejudices to find common ground, their day taking an unexpected turn. Robert (Heinz Trixner) is a 91-year-old, set-in-his-ways pensioner, living on a small allotment in Vienna while the migrant is Adib (Borhanulddin Hassan Zadeh), from Afghanistan. It is the gaping, unattended wound on Adib’s foot that the situation suddenly becomes life-or-death. NOBADI is a leaner, more serious…
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