The migrants

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Movie
Original title The migrants
Country of production Austria
original language German
Publishing year 2017
length 95 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 10
Rod
Director Arman T. Riahi
script Arman T. Riahi,
Aleksandar Petrović ,
Faris Endris Rahoma
production Arash T. Riahi ,
Karin C. Berger
music Karwan Marouf
camera Mario Minichmayr
cut Cordula Werner ,
Arman T. Riahi
occupation

The Migrantigen is an Austrian feature film made in 2017 by Arman T. Riahi . The premiere took place on January 26, 2017 at the Max Ophüls Preis film festival, where the comedy was screened in the feature film competition and awarded the audience prize. In Austria, the film was shown on March 31, 2017 on the Diagonale . The film was released in Austria on June 9, 2017. In Germany, the film was released on September 7, 2017.

action

The film is set in the fictional Viennese Grätzl Rudolfsgrund and is about the two basically perfectly integrated friends Benny and Marko. The two Viennese with a migration background lead the life of Bobos and have little connection to the culture and origin of their parents. Benny suffers from the fact that you can tell his Egyptian roots and he is only cast as an actor as a foreigner. One day, the two of them are approached by a television team who want to shoot a documentary series about the social hotspot Rudolfsgrund.

The sensation-seeking TV documentarist Marlene Weizenhuber mainly wants to reach as large an audience as possible. So Benny and Marko pretend to be unemployed petty criminals in the hope of money, fame and new opportunities, and plunge into numerous clichés. One day, while looking through the filmed material, Marlene Weizenhuber found out by chance that Benny and Marko had only staged the whole thing for them. But she continues to play the game.

Benny and Marko come more and more to the conclusion that it is time to get out, partly because they are giving the youngsters a wrong role model. At a meeting, the two of them present a joint plan to the residents of the Graetzel. As a result, with the support of a few others, they break into the broadcasting house and broadcast their own material. In this recording they tell the audience their true story and explain real problems in the neighborhood.

Production and Background

The shooting took place from April to June 2016 in Vienna . The Hanover market in the 20th district of Brigittenau in Vienna became the fictional Grätzl Rudolfsgrund . Other locations included the Schwendermarkt and the Volkertmarkt. The film was also shot in the context of the Austrian film and television award Romy as part of the 2016 Romy Awards .

The production was supported by the Austrian Film Institute and the Vienna Film Fund , and the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation was involved . The film was produced by Golden Girls Filmproduktion . Atanas Tcholakov was responsible for the sound, Monika Buttinger for the costume design and Martin Reiter for the production design.

For director Arman T. Riahi , who developed the script together with the two main actors, this was his first feature film. Originally, the story was planned as a twelve-part series Neue Wiener , after the production company Neue Sentimental Film went bankrupt , it was turned into a feature film.

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

Awards and nominations

  • Arman T. Riahi

  • Faris Rahoma

reception

The daily newspaper Die Presse wrote that the film would present and take apart many of the clichés that are commonly associated with the term migration background . The result is a “lively, sometimes deliciously funny film”. The film "not only celebrates the chaos that arises from the ever-increasing structure of lies, and plays with relish with stereotypes, but also deals with questions of identity and the practice of declaring origin and nationality as the determining characteristic of a person."

The Wiener Zeitung described the film as a “catchy, intelligent social comedy” and Riahi's humor as “hard and direct, now and then subtle, often black and above all pointed in dealing with stubborn clichés. He wrapped up the social criticism with his humor and also shot an apt media satire. "

With 69,577 visitors, the film was, according to Film Austria, the third most successful film of the Austrian cinema year 2017 after Wilde Maus and The Best of All Worlds .

Stage adaptation

In July 2017 it became known that director Arman T. Riahi was working on a stage version together with the two main actors and co-scriptwriters Faris Rahoma and Aleksandar Petrovic on the initiative of Michael Niavarani .

The premiere of the stage version of Die Migrantigen in the Wiener Kammerspiele of the Theater in der Josefstadt took place on September 7, 2019 . The play opened the 2019/20 season there. In the world premiere, Jakob Elsenwenger played the role of Marko Bilic / Tito and Luka Vlatković that of Benny Lorenz / Omar. As in the film, Doris Schretzmayer took on the role of Marlene Weizenhuber.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for the migrants . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ↑ Age rating for the migrants . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ Our feature film competition is set | Film Festival Max Ophüls Prize . Article dated December 16, 2016, accessed December 28, 2016.
  4. ↑ Kleine Zeitung: Three Austrian films competing for the Ophüls Prize . Article dated December 16, 2016, accessed December 28, 2016.
  5. ^ Film Festival Max Ophüls Prize: The 2017 Prize Winners ( Memento from March 27, 2018 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved January 29, 2017.
  6. ^ A b Tiroler Tageszeitung: Max Ophüls Prize for Austrian film "Seventeen" . Article from January 28, 2017, accessed on January 29, 2017.
  7. ^ Diagonal: The migrants . Retrieved March 18, 2017.
  8. ↑ a b Austrian Film Institute. Retrieved December 28, 2016 .
  9. ^ Filmstarts.de: The migrants . Article dated June 5, 2017, accessed June 6, 2017.
  10. ↑ The film "Die Migrantigen" is shot at the Hannovermarkt . Article dated June 9, 2016, accessed December 28, 2016.
  11. ↑ a b Kurier: The ROMY gala as a film set . Article dated April 21, 2016, accessed December 28, 2016.
  12. ^ Vienna Film Fund: Die Migrantigen . Retrieved December 28, 2016.
  13. ↑ orf.at: An "anti-integration comedy" . Article dated June 8, 2016, accessed December 28, 2016.
  14. ↑ derStandard.at: Arman T. Riahi's "Die Migrantigen" wins audience award in Nashville . Article dated May 1, 2017, accessed May 1, 2017.
  15. ↑ List of Diamond-Super-Golden-Austria Tickets 2017 . accessed on June 1, 2018.
  16. ↑ Nominations for the Austrian Film Prize 2018 . Retrieved December 6, 2017.
  17. ^ Kurier: ROMY Academy: It's about the best of the best . Article dated March 3, 2018, accessed March 3, 2018.
  18. ^ Kurier: The winners of the Akademie-Romy 2018 . Article dated April 5, 2018, accessed April 6, 2018.
  19. ↑ diepresse.com: "The migrants": How do you become a real foreigner? . Article dated June 7, 2017, accessed June 7, 2017.
  20. ^ Wiener Zeitung: Film criticism - How is foreigning going? . Article dated June 7, 2017, accessed June 8, 2017.
  21. ^ Vorarlberger Nachrichten: The local box office winners . Article dated December 30, 2017, accessed December 30, 2017.
  22. ↑ diepresse.com: Niavarani wants to bring "The Migrants" to the stage . Article dated July 21, 2017, accessed July 21, 2017.
  23. ^ Wiener Zeitung: The Josefstadt invites you to Nestroy and Peymann . Article dated May 15, 2019, accessed May 28, 2019.
  24. ↑ Kammerspiele der Josefstadt: Arman T. Riahi, Aleksandar Petrović and Faris Rahoma: The migrants: world premiere . Retrieved May 28, 2019.