The Austrian method

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Movie
German title The Austrian method
Original title The Austrian Method
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2006
length 93 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Florian Mischa Böder , Peter Bösenberg, Gerrit Lucas, Erica von Moeller, Alexander Tavakoli
production Tobby Holzinger
Thomas Wöbke
Jakob Claussen
Uli Putz
music Andreas Wodraschke
camera Matthias Schellenberg
cut Andreas Menn
occupation

The Austrian Method is a German episode film from 2006 that connects the story of five women.

The film is a Tobby Holzinger film production, was made in coproduction with Claussen + Wöbke + Putz Filmproduktion GmbH and with the support of the Filmstiftung NRW .

The film, initiated by Tobby Holzinger, premiered in October 2006 at the 40th Hof International Film Festival, was given the title “particularly valuable” by the FBW and was awarded a silver bear at the 36th Festival of Nations in Austria.

The Austrian method started in March 2008 in the distribution of Zorro Film in German cinemas.

content

In this collective project of five young directors, the stories of five by no means weak women overlap ... 24 hours later some will have survived, others not:

Julia ( Maja Beckmann ) suddenly discovers the longing to explore her own depths. A nightly odyssey takes her to a ski hall, where she wants to explore “The Austrian Method”.

An unwanted guest is sitting with psychologist Roman Fischer (Michael Abendroth) and his wife Carmen ( Susanne Lothar ): Eva (Susanne Buchenberger), who has come to dinner and no longer wants to go.

Clara (Cathérine Seifert) struggles with the diagnosis of a brain tumor. She sways desperately between repression and the decision to take her own life.

Singer Maleen ( Lilia Lehner ) tries to break open the deadlocked mechanisms of her love affair with the pianist Sascha ( Arno Frisch ) with a poisoned ecstasy pill.

Hans ( Johann von Bülow ) and the bed-tied Mona ( Julie Bräuning ) live an amour fou in which the role of perpetrator and victim is blurred.

criticism

The Wiesbaden Filmbewertungsstelle described the film as “so skilful and full of tension ... that you want to take off your hat to the script and editing. ... excellent actresses and first-class directorial work. "

Peter Gutting (kino-zeit.de) judged that the episode film “is not primarily a film about tiredness of life . It is much more about returning to life through a borderline experience or perhaps arriving at it for the first time. It's about the feeling of stuck in a wrong life and missing what is really important. Just like when you are diagnosed with a serious illness you suddenly no longer understand how you could waste your life with all these everyday worries and petty entanglements. ... each separate from the other, but soulmate and united through the cut and imagery. "

Thilo Wydra ( Filmecho ) saw in the film "dark, hopeless, painful and therefore touching cinema."

“The Austrian Method… interweaves five stories and fates like a mosaic à la Short Cuts into a well-functioning, unpretentious and entertaining film. ... an inspiring portrait of German society. "

- Rüdiger Suchsland : Frankfurter Rundschau

Film festivals

Awards

  • "Particularly valuable" rating (Filmbewertungsstelle Wiesbaden)
  • Silver Bear - 36th Festival of Nations (Austria)

music

The score for the film was composed and recorded by Andreas Wodraschke. In addition, Anton Berman, Molly Nyman & Harry Escott , and Theodor Pauß contributed compositions for the film. The film music is complemented with songs by

Others

Susanne Lothar and Arno Frisch had already common in Funny Games by Michael Haneke played. It took eleven years for the two to be in front of the camera again.

The Austrian Method was released in German cinemas in 2008 and is not available on DVD . The film was made without a broadcaster and has not yet been shown on German television .

Single receipts

  1. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from June 9, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kino-zeit.de
  2. ↑ FrankfurterRundschau.de: FRANKFURTER RUNDSCHAU - publication date October 31, 2006 of October 31, 2006 (no longer available / archive subject to a charge)
  3. ↑ www.ZorroFilm.de: SPIRIT Filmverleih shows: The Austrian Method  ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) from September 2nd, 2011@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.zorrofilm.de

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