That same year I made a second film with Vojtech called Ivo, or in German it was called, An Attempt to Escape, Fluchtversuch. And it was made in Austria and Yugoslavia, Slovenia. It was much more of a flawed film than The Clown, which was pretty much all of a piece. But Ivo had problems. It was sponsored by Austrian... money from Austria and also the production... a lady called Pia Arnold who was, by profession, a production manager, had managed some quite expensive American productions on location in Germany, she was the producer of that film.

There were quite a few problems. The first problem was that the cast was a mixture of Yugoslavs who were used to a very naturalistic tradition of acting, and Austrians who were the complete opposite. Who were from the Burgtheater and they all thought they were Sarah Bernhardt, so the postman talking to the landlady, said something, 'I think you have a letter today, madam', you know, that sort of thing. And Vojtech, not being a native German speaker, that didn't grate on him to the extent that it grated on me, but basically it was a problem that you couldn't... you could mitigate against, but you couldn't avoid, entirely avoid. That was an ongoing problem right through the film.

Now, the story is about a group... a family of guest workers, so-called guest workers from Yugoslavia, who are working in Vienna. And there is a father and a brother and the young son, who is keeping house for them, and the mother stayed back in Yugoslavia. So there's this household of three or four, with the son keeping house for them, and they go off to work every day and he's at home getting harassed by the landlady and the neighbours, and God knows what. So he's very unhappy and just before Christmas he decides he wants to go back to Yugoslavia, and he just takes off and he hitchhikes his way back to Yugoslavia, along a road that is famous for the number of accidents along there. It's the road going from Vienna to... through Graz into Yugoslavia, into Lubliana.