Loss Is to Be Expected

1992 · 118 MIN · IMDB 7.3 · 219 VOTES · DIR. Ulrich Seidl

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Overview

Looks at two communities on either side of the Czech-Austrian border. There's an elderly man in Austria looking for a new wife, and he meets a lone single woman on the Czech side of the border.

Dialogue Timeline — 620 lines

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00:02:23 LOSSES TO BE EXPECTED
00:07:16 Attention, a message from the mayor!
00:11:46 In the market-place in Schaffau Stood a grey horse
00:15:06 You know, they've all got these ideas in their heads nowadays.
00:21:49 Give Rosa my regards. -And mine to you, Loisl's the only one I know.
00:27:00 That's work, too.
00:30:54 You'd only need to cook for the two of us. Everything's there.
00:33:03 That used to be a shop. They've converted it because they've got two anyway.
00:35:20 This is the bedroom.
00:38:01 It's cold, terribly cold. You have to stuff rags into the cracks.
00:43:22 Have you got a sore throat?
00:49:40 then we'll get married and if not, then good-bye."
00:51:59 Everything as good as new, so to say.
00:53:59 Come over here and sit down for a bit.
00:57:00 If I begin at one, we get longer impulses
01:03:23 I've already suggested that. -And?
01:05:25 On the border... -What do you mean, on the border...
01:10:12 How much does it cost?
01:12:33 There's the nailpolish... -I don't use that.
01:17:40 Look, they won't recognise me when I go back home.
01:21:18 Choose me a good one. -You don't want one of those.
01:23:20 But I could do what I wanted, too.
01:33:31 No, I'm out all day. -Why can't you sleep?
01:41:11 and tomorrow I'm making beef with a liver dumpling soup and noodles.

Cast & Characters

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed620
Dialogue density5.3 lines / min
First line00:02:23
Final line01:41:11

Production Record

DirectorUlrich Seidl
LanguageGerman
IMDb votes219