Petra Biondina Volpe directs Leonie Benesch, Sonja Riesen and Alireza Bayram in this drama where an overworked nurse battles to give all her patients humane care and attention during an understaffed shift.

Leonie Benesch showing shades of competency, concern, stress, anger, frustration, defiance and fear in one near blank expression is becoming a sub-genre of modern cinema in and of itself.

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Perfect Double Bill: The Hospital (1971)

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