Limits of Europe

Limits of Europe

What is the price of western prosperity?

2024•1h 38m•7.0/10

Documentary

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7.0/10(2)

A prominent Czech journalist Saša Uhlová leaves her family and joins “cheap labour force” in Western Europe. Undercover, she works at an asparagus farm in Germany, tries her hand as a maid at a hotel in Ireland and takes care of the elderly in France. She experiences first-hand the struggles of Eastern European low-wage workers whose sacrifice and hard work allow for the Western society’s comfort. What is the real price that Europe pays for exploiting its own citizens? How do the lives of economic migrants, who have been forced to leave their children and elderly parents, look like? And why are privileged Europeans looking the other way?

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Hypermarket Film, Česká televize, Kolam Productions, Kerekes Film, ARTE

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Saša Uhlová

Self

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