At the peak of her international career, Maria Enders is asked to perform in a revival of the play that made her famous twenty years ago. But back then she played the role of Sigrid, an alluring young girl who disarms and eventually drives her boss Helena to suicide. Now she is being asked to step into the other role, that of the older Helena. She departs with her assistant to rehearse in Sils Maria; a remote region of the Alps. A young Hollywood starlet with a penchant for scandal is to take find out more...

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Set in a surrealistic, snow covered South American city where the voiceless people communicate through floating speech bubbles, we observe the dark machinations of the sinister Mr TV, owner of the only TV channel, and a man who controls the will of the city's inhabitants, but enough of the plot, the meat of the movie being its rich, visually striking black and white imagery, an allegory about the power of media and television, constructed by a director with roots in photography and influenced b find out more...