Leonie Benesch, determined face and conscience of German cinema

Revealed at the age of 18 in 2009 in Michael Haneke's Palme d'Or winner The White Ribbon , Leonie Benesch has established herself as the new face of German screens. Her latest films, The Teachers' Room and September 5, have gone all the way to the Oscars, earning nominations. With her roles, the petite 34-year-old actress has won two Lolas, the German equivalent of our Césars. This success could continue with Petra Biondina Volpe's In the Line, in theaters this Wednesday. A visceral, closed-door, almost real-time dive, like the Hippocrates series, into an understaffed medical department of a hospital in German-speaking Switzerland.

Leonie Benesch plays Floria, a night nurse who begins a frantic tour. Taking temperatures, blood pressure, and administering painkillers. The young woman chases after a doctor who is due to announce a terminal cancer diagnosis, sings a nursery rhyme to an octogenarian suffering from Alzheimer's, and listens to complaints...