Michael Pfeifenberger

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Michael Pfeifenberger (born April 10, 1965 in Zederhaus , Salzburg ) is an Austrian director and screenwriter .

Life

Michael Pfeifenberger has been working as a freelance filmmaker since 1997. His first feature film Thanksgivin ', the midnight blue city with leading actress Marianne Sägebrecht was released in 2000 and was shown in Austrian and German cinemas as well as at international film festivals. His youth drama 011 Beograd - Survival in the city was published in 2003. In Israel, Michael Pfeifenberger shot the youth drama Chaltura - Leila & Lena as “filmmaker in residence” at Ben Gurion University in Be'er Scheva . In 2008, Todespolka was made , a film privately financed by producer and screenwriter Stephan Demmelbauer and directed by Pfeifenberger and starring Alexander Pschill . The film is inspired by recent developments in Austrian politics, a thriller about “Austria under a legal regime”. Death polka received the Mexican film prize "Bronze Palm Award". Also in 2008, the multiple award-winning film essay Josef Winkler - Der Kinoleinwandgeher , filmed in India, Mexico and Austria, was produced under the direction of Michael Pfeifenberger.

Filmography

Short films:

  • 1997: Stanley (A / D, 15 min, short-thrill)
  • 1998: That's all Johnny (A, 20 min, short-psycho)
  • 1999: Everything will be fine (A, 25 min, short drama)
  • 2007: Elses Song - Yerushalaim Shel Else (ISR / A 20 min, dance-movie)
  • 2017: Leo (ISR / A 20min, bio-pic)

Feature films:

  • 2000: Thanksgivin - The Night Blue City (A / D, 100 min, psycho-drama, director / co-author with Stephan Demmelbauer and Marianne Sägebrecht )
  • 2003: 011 Beograd (SER / A, 85 min, Youthdrama)
  • 2005: Chaltura - Leila & Lena (ISR / A, 85 min, desert road movie)
  • 2010: Death Polka (A, 83 min, political satire)

Documentaries:

  • 2008: Josef Winkler - The big screen goer (AUT / MEX / IND)
  • 2012: Call Me Jew (ISR / A, 95 min)
  • 2016: Desert Kids (A / ISR, 83 min, director / book)
  • 2016: Gideon - A Fighter for Justice (A / ISR, 60 min, director / script / production)
  • 2019: Micha Shagrir - The Linzer Candy Boy (A / ISR, 65 min)

Watch TV:

  • 2013: Ghosts that divide : Richard Strauss and Kurt Weill (ORF / 3SAT documentary)
  • 2005–2010: Tom Turbo (50 episodes, ORF TV Kids Serial)

Awards and nominations

  • Nomination for the Max Ophüls Prize 1999 for Everything will be fine
  • Nomination for the Max Ophüls Prize 2004 for 011-Beograd
  • Bronze Palm Award Mexico for death polka :
  • Upper Austrian Film Prize Gold, Audience Prize for Death Polka
  • European Media Award for Aesthetic and Design 2009 for Josef Winkler - The big screen goer :
  • Prize for Best Adaption, Vila Nova de Famalicão, Portugal 2010 for Josef Winkler - The Big Screen Goer
  • Nomination for FIPA D´Or, Biarritz, France 2010 for Josef Winkler - The Big Screen Goer

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Filmography up to 2008 in the press kit for 'Der Kinoleinwandgeher' (PDF; 455 kB)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.kinoleinwandgeher.at   (accessed on October 3, 2008)
  2. ↑ Pictures of a World Wanderer ( Memento from September 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Last updated on March 18, 2008,
  3. ↑ 'Death Polka': Austria under a legal regime. APA / Der Standard , September 30, 2008 (accessed October 3, 2008)

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personal data
SURNAME Pfeifenberger, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Zederhaus , Austria