Directed by Petra Volpe, Late Shift stars Leonie Benesch (The Teachers' Lounge, September 5) as Floria, a nurse in the surgical ward of a Swiss hospital about to clock in for the late shift. What ...
An elderly woman dies, and her three adult sons cling to each other, weeping, before turning on the duty nurse. She hadn’t seen their mother once, they blurt to the doctor. It wouldn’t have made any ...
Petra Volpe had long been thinking about the role of nurses and the integral role they play in society but it wasn’t until the aftermath of the pandemic that the Swiss writer-director felt compelled ...
Following an overworked nurse during her shift at an understaffed, overstretched ward has been a box office draw in German-speaking Europe and was acquired for North America by Music Box Films. By ...
The ‘Teachers' Lounge’ star toplines Petra Volpe’s day-in-the-life medical procedural set in the surgical ward of a Swiss hospital. By Sheri Linden Senior Copy Editor/Film Critic Volpe (The Divine ...
Most of us dread the thought of entering the broken-down labyrinth that is the American health care system, yet we’ll happily watch hours of hyper-competent hospital employees bark jargon and scramble ...
"Be careful!" Tobis has revealed an official trailer for a Swiss drama titled Late Shift in English, the latest from acclaimed Swiss filmmaker Petra Volpe. The original German title is Heldin, which ...
Petra Volpe‘s “Late Shift” – which plays at this year’s Special Gala in Berlin – plunges into the high-pressure world of an understaffed Swiss hospital, unfolding close to real-time through the eyes ...
Most of us dread the thought of entering the broken-down labyrinth that is the American healthcare system, yet we'll happily watch hours of hyper-competent hospital employees bark jargon and scramble ...