‘Late Shift’ Director Breaks Down Her Swiss Film’s Spin on ‘The Pitt’

Swiss director Petra Volpe was in the final stages of making her movie “Late Shift,” which follows a nurse through one tension-racked shift at the hospital where she works, when she first heard about the American television series that was going to follow doctors through a tension-racked shift at the hospital where they work.

“I read about ‘The Pitt’ pretty late,” said Volpe, who is representing Switzerland in the Oscars international race for the second time with “Late Shift,” eight years after her film “The Divine Order” did so.