Die Wand

A woman inexplicably finds herself cut off from all human contacts when an invisible , unyielding wall suddenly surrounds the countryside.  In an eerie sequence , we later learn that people on the other side of the wall have been frozen in time -meaning that the woman is not only trapped alone , but also quite possibly the last person left alive on earth.  Martina Gedeck's performance , which must have been physically demanding in the extreme, is phenomenal - only occasionally does she directly express outward emotion , but in her interaction with animals and the landscape,  she creates a powerful impression of her character's coming to merge with the great outdoors.  She's left with a dog named Lynx (the director's own hound) , a cow and a couple of cats who prove themselves to be of not much practical use at all.  Gradually, she learns how to survive there , moving past loneliness and fear to a sense of communion with her animals and surroundings. The film , based on a novel by the Austrian writer Marlen Haushofer , doesn't tell us much about the woman , only that she is vacationing in the Austrian mountains when the wall cuts her off.  How our protagonist survives and changes , grows closer to Lynx , and battles several key obstacles ,make up most of the action.