Directed by Petra Volpe, Late Shift stars Leonie Benesch (The Teachers' Lounge, September 5) as Floria, a nurse in the ...

The glamorized flights of fantasy of such shows are a far cry from what Berlin-based Benesch experienced making director ...

Leonie Benesch gives one of the best performances of 2025 in the hospital drama Late Shift, playing no-nonsense Swiss nurse ...

Floria (the superb Leonie Benesch: The Crown; The Teachers’ Lounge; September 5) is a nurse, working the severely ...

Director Petra Biondina Volpe captures the chaos and pressure of a night shift at an understaffed hospital in a cinematic tribute to nurses that’s elevated by the unflashy skill of Leonie Benesch.

“Late Shift” had a shooting budget of $1.5 million, a number that was initially higher but had to be scaled back when the CtrlMovie team went looking for investors.

But actor Daniel Roebuck was always in Leno’s corner… even before he was cast as the victor of The Tonight Show war in the movie version of The Late Shift, which premiered on HBO on Feb. 24, 1996.

It's true. There are just two of them on the late shift and a full ward of 26 patients: even in Switzerland, which has arguably the best health service in the world, there are serious staff shortages.

Paying tribute to an underappreciated profession, Late Shift offers a portrait of workaday courage, not least when Floria mouths off to a surgeon on behalf of a patient who feels abandoned.