Lotus movie

The Lotus-Film GmbH is an Austrian film production company based in Vienna . The company was founded in 1982 by Erich Lackner . The focus of activity was initially the production of adventure and outdoor sports films. In the 1990s, the focus shifted to the production of documentaries, feature films and arthouse films for the cinema.

history

Lotus Film achieved great success in 1999 with Barbara Albert's debut film Nordrand, which has won several international awards, about the dreams and fates of young immigrants on the outskirts of Vienna. Ulrich Seidl's early works , such as With loss is to be expected (1992) and Animal Love (1995), were also produced by Lotus Film. Michael Glawogger's documentary Workingman's Death (2005), which was awarded the German Film Prize for best documentary film in 2007 , and Glawogger's more recent production, the feature film Slumming (2007) , also received international attention .

In 2010, Peter Wirthensohn and Tommy Pridnig took over Lotus Film from founder Erich Lackner, of which they have been managing partners ever since.

Filmography (selection)

Feature films

• At the edge of the world (Austria 1992, Gpran Rebic )
• Jugofilm (Austria 1997, Goran Rebic )
• Viehjud Levi (D / Ö 1999, Didi Danquart )
• Northern edge (Austria 1999, Barbara Albert )
• The detour (Austria / FR / NL 2000, Frouke Fokkama )
• Game at Dawn (Austria 2001, TV film, Götz Spielmann )
• Blue Moon (Austria 2002, Andrea Maria Dusl )
• Danube, Dunaj, Duna, Dunau, Dunarea (Austria 2003, Goran Rebic)
• Antares (Austria 2004, Götz Spielmann)
• Villa Henriette (Austria / CH 2004, Peter Payer )
• Cabal and love (D / Ö 2005, TV film, Leander Haußmann )
• The Gate to Hell (Austria 2006, TV short film as part of the ORF 8 × 45 series , Max Gruber )
• Slumming (Austria / Switzerland 2006, director: Michael Glawogger )
• Kotsch (Austria 2006, Helmut Köpping )
• Acquitted (Ö / LUX 2007, Peter Payer)
• Balkan Traffic - The day after tomorrow nowhere (D / KRO 2008, Markus Stein )
• The Father's Game (D / F / Ö 2009, Michael Glawogger)
• Contact High (Austria / PL 2009, director: Michael Glawogger)
• The camera killer (CH / HU / Ö 2010, Robert Adrian Pejo )
• Brand - A Totengeschichte (Ö / D, 2011 Thomas Roth )
• The Chinese (D / Ö / S 2010, Peter Keglevic)
• Still life (Austria 2010, Sebastian Meise)
• Measuring the World (Film) (D / Ö 2012, Detlev Buck)
• The Little Lady (D / Ö 2012, Gernot Roll)
• Blood Sisters (Austria / Germany 2014, Thomas Roth)
• Country Crime (TV Series)
  • 2014: The woman with a shoe
  • 2015: Southern Cross
  • 2015: The dead man by the pond
  • 2018: The dead in the lake
• Ghost hunters - On the icy trail (D / Austria / IRL 2015, Tobi Baumann)
• Thank You for Bombing (2015, Barbara Eder ), Diagonale Prize 2016 for innovative production performance
• The midwife's secret (D / Austria / CZ 2016, Roland Suso Richter )
• City Comedy (TV series)
  • 2017: God for beginners
  • 2019: The fall of Gerti B.
• Cold feet (D / Ö 2018, Wolfgang Groos )
• Herzjagen (Austria 2019, Elisabeth Scharang )

Documentaries

• A loss is to be expected (Ö 1993, Ulrich Seidl )
• Animal love (Austria 1995, Ulrich Seidl)
• The last men (Ö 1995, Ulrich Seidl)
• Attwengerfilm (Austria 1995, Wolfgang Murnberger, Florian Flicker, Bernhard Weirather)
• Pictures at an Exhibition (Ö 1996, Ulrich Seidl)
• The Best Friend (Ö 1997, TV movie, Ulrich Seidl)
• Megacities (Austria / CH 1998, Michael Glawogger)
• A specialist (Ö / BE / D / F / LUX 1999, director: Eyal Sivan , script: Eyal Sivan and Rony Brauman )
• France, we are coming (Austria 1999, Michael Glawogger )
• Normal times (Austria 2001, Elisabeth Scharang )
• On the location (Austria 2002, Barbara Albert, Michael Glawogger, Ulrich Seidl, Michael Sturminger)
• Workingman's Death (Austria / Germany 2005, Michael Glawogger)
• Above water (LUX 2006, Udo Maurer )
• At the limit (Austria / D / USA 2007, Pepe Danquart )
• Malibran Rediscovered - The first Diva (Austria 2008, Michael Sturminger)
• The women's caravan (Austria / BE / F 2009, Natalie Borgers)
• Whores' Glory (Austria 2010, Michael Glawogger)
• Cathedrals of Culture (2014, Karim Ainouz, Michael Glawogger, Michael Madsen, Margreth Olin, Robert Redford, Wim Wenders)
• Untitled (2017, Michael Glawogger, Monika Willi )

Awards (selection)

• German Film Award 2007 : Workingman's Death as Best Documentary
• Diagonale 2006: Producer award from the collecting society for audiovisual media for Workingman's Death
• 68th Venice Film Festival : Special Jury Award for Whores' Glory
• Austrian Film Award 2012 : Whores' Glory as Best Documentary

Web links

• Lotus Film website
• Lotus Film in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Tommy Pridnig & Peter Wirthensohn in conversation . Article dated June 2013, accessed June 10, 2018.