The children of the dead (film)

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Movie
Original title The children of the dead
Country of production Austria
original language German
Publishing year 2019
length 90 minutes
Rod
Director Kelly Copper ,
Pavol Liska
script Kelly Copper,
Pavol Liska
production Ulrich Seidl
music Wolfgang Mitterer
camera Kelly Copper,
Pavol Liska
cut Kelly Copper,
Michael Palm
synchronization
  • Andrea Maier: Karin
  • Greta Kostka: mother
  • Klaus Unterrieder: Forester

The children of the dead is an Austrian feature film made in 2019 by Kelly Copper and Pavol Liska. The premiere took place as part of the Berlin International Film Festival on February 8, 2019, where the film was invited to the Forum section and awarded a FIPRESCI prize . The Austrian theatrical release took place on April 5, 2019, the German theatrical release was on November 14, 2019. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Elfriede Jelinek .

action

In this homeland film with brass music and home movie horror, among others, the undead, a depressed forester and a Syrian family of poets haunt Styria .

For example, the widow of a National Socialist is setting up a CINEMA 666 in an old factory , where people can mourn the past. A forester is being followed by his dead sons who committed suicide years ago. A secretary is confronted with a vicious doppelganger and drives her supermother crazy.

Production and Background

The project by the directors Kelly Copper and Pavol Liska and their Nature Theater of Oklahoma from New York , named after the amateur theater group from Franz Kafka's novel fragment Der Verschollene ( America ), was realized by Ulrich Seidl Filmproduktion in cooperation with the Styrian Autumn 2017 art festival . Around 80 amateur actors were cast on site for the film , as well as brass bands and fire brigades.

Copper and Liska did not read the novel themselves. In preparation, they had readers tell them about the content and learned it by reading Wikipedia.

The shooting on Super 8 took place in September and October 2017 in Styria . The shooting locations were original locations in Upper Styria in and around Neuberg an der Mürz . The production was supported by the Austrian Film Institute , the State of Styria and Cine Art , and the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation was involved . Matz Müller was responsible for the sound.

At the Diagonale 2018 film festival in Graz , the making-of Die Untoten von Neuberg by Ulrich A. Reiterer and a video interview with Elfriede Jelinek as well as an exhibition with set photos were shown. The project was awarded the special prize as part of the 2018 Nestroy Theater Prize.

The film was released on DVD in 2019 as part of the Edition Österreichischer Film von Hoanzl and the Standard .

reception

Andrey Arnold wrote in the daily newspaper Die Presse that the film - although he enjoyed turning the Austrian self-image through the brutal satirical meat grinder - its district carnival mood robbed a lot of bite. Compared to Schlingensief's The German Chainsaw Massacre , this sympathetic soul carnival lacks urgency. Politically, it remains rather unspecific and would eventually run out of steam.

Thomas Mießgang described the film on ZEIT Online as a “grotesque metaphor for the Nazi past and the right-wing populist present in Austria”. The Styrian zombie carnival would remind a little of the Blair Witch Project .

Writer Clemens J. Setz wrote in his film review on derStandard.at : “I think I've never seen anything so crazy in my life. Something so foolish ”.

Awards and nominations

Berlin International Film Festival 2019

Austrian Film Award 2020

  • Award in the category Best Music (Wolfgang Mitterer)

literature

  • Andreas Peternell and Ditz Fejer: The undead of Neuberg: On Elfriede Jelinek's footsteps through Upper Styria , Styria Verlag, Vienna 2019, ISBN 978-3-222-13628-3

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 69th Berlinale: Austrian productions get side prizes . Article dated February 16, 2019, accessed February 16, 2019.
  2. ↑ a b Forum 2019: Risk instead of perfection . at berlinale.de, January 18, 2019 (accessed January 19, 2019).
  3. ↑ a b c d Austrian Film Institute. Retrieved January 19, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Kleine Zeitung: 69th Berlinale world premieres for Jelinek project and Geyrhalter . Article from January 18, 2019, accessed on January 19, 2019.
  5. ↑ a b Nestroy Prize - The Vienna Theater Prize - Special Prize - The Children of the Dead . Retrieved January 19, 2019.
  6. ↑ Patrick Wildermann: Schnitzel of horror. In: Tagesspiegel Online. Verlag Der Tagesspiegel GmbH, February 9, 2019, accessed on October 11, 2019 .
  7. ↑ orf.at: "The children of the dead": Participate in the autumn . Article of September 29, 2017, accessed on January 19, 2019.
  8. ↑ Kleine Zeitung: Steirischer Herbst: Film shoot for Jelinek's "The Children of the Dead": chainsaws and staples . Article of October 3, 2017, accessed on January 19, 2019.
  9. ^ Diagonale - Festival of Austrian Film: The Children of the Dead . Retrieved January 19, 2019.
  10. ↑ diepresse.com: As brutal as Jelinek, but in a better mood . Article dated April 3, 2019, accessed June 14, 2019.
  11. ↑ Zeit Online: "The Children of the Dead": On the trail of the zombies . Article of April 8, 2019, accessed on June 14, 2019.
  12. ↑ derStandard.at: Jelinek adaptation: Something so foolish . Article dated April 1, 2019, accessed June 14, 2019.
  13. ↑ orf.at: The silent film "The Children of the Dead" brings the undead to Styria . Article dated April 3, 2019, accessed June 14, 2019.
  14. ↑ Berlinala 2019: Awards for Independent Juries . Retrieved February 16, 2019.
  15. ^ Nominations for the Austrian Film Prize 2020. In: Academy of Austrian Films . Retrieved December 4, 2019 .