LATE SHIFT
by Petra Volpe
synopsis
Floria, a nurse, works with great dedication and professionalism on the surgical ward of a Swiss hospital. She never puts a foot wrong, always has an open ear for her patients even in the most stressful of situations, and is immediately at hand in an emergency – or, at least, that is the ideal version of events. But in the harsh daily reality of the often unpredictable situation on the ward, things can look a little different. When Floria arrives for the late shift on one such day, a nurse is absent from the fully occupied and already chronically understaffed ward. Despite the hectic pace, Floria manages to look after a seriously ill mother and an old man urgently awaiting a diagnosis with just as much care and expertise as she does when attending to a private patient with all his special demands. But then she makes a disastrous mistake and the shift threatens to run completely off the rails. A nerve-racking race against time begins.
| international title: | Late Shift |
| original title: | Heldin |
| country: | Switzerland, Germany |
| sales agent: | TrustNordisk |
| year: | 2025 |
| genre: | fiction |
| directed by: | Petra Volpe |
| film run: | 92' |
| release date: | DE 27/02/2025, FR 27/08/2025 |
| screenplay: | Petra Volpe |
| cast: | Leonie Benesch, Sonja Riesen, Urs Bihler, Margherita Schoch, Jürg Plüss, Alireza Bayram, Ridvan Murati, Urbain Guiguemdé |
| cinematography by: | Judith Kaufmann |
| film editing: | Hansjörg Weißbrich |
| art director: | Beatrice Schultz |
| costumes designer: | Linda Harper |
| music: | Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch |
| producer: | Reto Schaerli, Lukas Hobi |
| co-producer: | Bastie Griese |
| production: | Zodiac Pictures International, MMC Zodiac GmbH, SRF - Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen, SRG SSR |
| distributor: | Tobis Film, Wild Bunch Distribution |
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