Bellaria - as long as we live!
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Bellaria - as long as we live! |
 | |
| Country of production |
Austria Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2001 |
| length | 100 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 0 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Douglas Wolfsperger |
| script | Douglas Wolfsperger |
| production | Douglas Wolfsperger, epo film , Vienna |
| music | Hans-Jürgen Buchner / Haindling |
| camera | Helmut Wimmer |
| cut | Götz Schuberth , Clara Fabry |
Bellaria - as long as we live! is a documentary by Douglas Wolfsperger from 2001. The Austrian premiere took place on April 11, 2002 at the Bellaria Cinema in Vienna . The film was released in Germany on October 24, 2002. In the same year he was awarded the title Particularly Valuable by the Austrian Association of the Film and Music Industry .
action
The Bellaria cinema in Vienna is a small art house cinema in Museumsstrasse, a side street behind the Vienna Volkstheater , which mainly shows films from the UFA era. The focus of the documentary is on the life stories of the smart, elderly cinema-goers, their fascination for the cinema and their longing for the past.
reception
The lexicon of international films describes the film as extremely entertaining and lovable. Cinema magazine complains that the settings are overloaded with music and text. All in all, it is a charming film.
Awards
- Bavarian Film Award 2002
- Prix Europa 2002
- The Silver Plaque For Best Documentary, Chicago International Film Festival 2002
- International Grand Prix For Documentary Monte Carlo 2002
- Ernst Lubitsch Prize 2003
- Intermedia-Globe GOLD, WorldMediaFestival Hamburg 2003
- The Gold Plaque For Best Documentary, 40th Chicago International Television Competition 2004
- Special Mention by the International Jury of the Cinematographic Theater CICAE 2002
- Nomination for the German Camera Prize 2002
- Nomination for the BaWü Documentary Film Prize 2003
- Nomination for the Documentary Film Prize of the Bavarian Radio
Festivals
- Germany
- Film Festival Max Ophüls Preis 2002, Saarbrücken (opening film)
- 52nd Berlinale (special screening in the official program), February 2002
- 17th International Documentary Film Festival, Munich (opening film), April 2002
- International film festival Emden-Norderney 2002
- Biberach Film Festival 2002
- 19th Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival (opening film), November 2002
- Braunschweig International Film Festival , November 2002
- Kinofest Lünen (opening film), November 2002
- International film weekend Würzburg (opening film), January 2003
- International
- Diagonale 2002, Graz (Austrian Annual Film Show), March 2002
- Sydney Film Festival 2002
- Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2002
- Jerusalem International Film Festival 2002
- Chicago International Film Festival 2002, in competition
- Flanders International Film Festival Ghent 2002
- Kiev International Festival 2002
- Max! Hong Kong Film Festival 2002
- Festival of Festivals, Aarhus (Denmark) 2002
- International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2002
- German Film Festival London 2002
- German Film Festival Rome 2003
- German Film Festival Madrid 2003
- German Film Festival Buenos Aires 2003
- Umeå International Film Festival (Sweden) 2003
- German Film Festival Moscow 2003
Web links
- Bellaria - as long as we live! in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Film information on the website of the director Douglas Wolfsperger
- Website of the director Douglas Wolfsperger
Individual evidence
- ↑ Filmprädikate (1993 - 2002) (PDF; 52 kB), accessed on February 23, 2013.
- ↑ http://www.film.at/bellaria_kino/
- ↑ Bellaria - As long as we live! In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Bellaria - As long as we live on cinema.de