Summer in Vienna

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Movie
Original title Summer in Vienna
Country of production Austria
original language German
Publishing year 2015
length 100 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
Rod
Director Walter Grossbauer
script Walter Grossbauer
production Claudia Pöchlauer
music Makhachek ,
Daniel Logar ,
Ingrid Marsoner
camera Walter Großbauer,
David Lindengrün ,
Josef P. Wagner
cut Walter Grossbauer,
David Lindengrün,
Daniela Dittinger

Summer in Vienna is an Austrian documentary that, based on the workshop of the instrument maker Bernhard Balas, illuminates unusual people and lifestyles during a hot summer in Vienna. It was shot from 2013 to 2014 by the Austrian director , cameraman and filmmaker Walter Grossbauer in Vienna. It was released on September 18, 2015 in Austria and on March 31, 2016 in Germany.

action

The workshop of the instrument maker and restorer Bernhard Balas is located in the 15th district of Vienna. Bernhard is a passionate fisherman and a passionate cook. Every day he prepares lunch for his employees in the workshop kitchen. In the heat of summer, tables and chairs are placed on the sidewalk in front of the workshop, and people come there for lunch. But not only the employees, but also friends and acquaintances take their places in the improvised pub garden. The workshop thus becomes the epicenter of stories told by real people from Vienna: by Max, the collector of sunshades; from Christin, who was still called Christian six months ago; by John, who has just published his first novel. These very different people have one thing in common: They are active nests of resistance against the zeitgeist who have consistently eluded the influence of the consumer-oriented society.

Impressive people, a rare craft, a city full of music, these are the ingredients of the unusual city portrait, which is about shellac and carp, about passion and courage, about the necessity of failure and the warmth of heart during a hot summer in Vienna.

background

The director Walter Grossbauer was invited for the first time to a concert with Bernhard Balas, the piano maker, in 2009 and immersed himself in the world of life and work Balas, which is carried by the passion for his job and the respectful and appreciative interaction with his employees. Over the years, the director got to know some people from Bernhard Balas' environment, who came to eat or who appeared spontaneously in the workshop. So the idea for a film about this rare sociotope in the middle of the big city came about. In the spring of 2013 he began to work on a filming concept that would connect the workshop, the protagonists and Vienna. Filming began the following summer. During the shooting, the musician Franz Joseph Machatschek joined the team, who were responsible for the text and composition of the film music. Summer in Vienna finally turned into a cross-genre film, a mixture of documentary, docu-comedy, feel-good movie, music film and Heimatfilm.

criticism

  • Alexandra Seibel from the Kurier writes an unusual city portrait showing Vienna as a biotope for bizarre characters.
  • The film editorial team of the Tiroler Tageszeitung writes about old pianos, fresh fish and joie de vivre
  • Teresa Schaur-Wünsch from the press writes about the happiness that lies at the door
  • Eva Kleinschwärzer from Der Falter writes: The best stories are written by life itself, they say. And Bernhard Balas' workshop is a place where many of these very stories converge and from which the film accompanies its people a bit. A completely unspectacular summer in Vienna. Various body parts are held in the sun, an origami crane is being made somewhere and lunch will soon be ready. Summer in Vienna is a hodgepodge of strange, unexcited, idyllic moments that spread out slowly and comfortably and, in their diversity, are put together into a loving collage. Despite the supposed confusion, special attention is paid to each element, the stories as well as the music or the city itself. 100 minutes and another summer look-up, please.
  • Thomas Volkmann from programmkino.de writes: tennis balls pop, zither music sounds, there is hammering and screwing - and then there are two dead carp in the kitchen. Sounds a bit like idyll, bustle and chaos at the same time, but describes the prelude to a worthwhile documentary about a handful of special and unusual people in Vienna's 15th district. Walter Großbauer followed them for a hot summer and captured authentic, calm and entertaining encounters.
  • Julia Teichmann from Filmdienst writes: Observations and snapshots around a Viennese piano making workshop, in which mainly instruments are repaired and restored. The camera follows the founder of the workshop and some of his employees, but also friends and friends. Along this microcosm, the documentary draws a beautiful picture of the mood of Vienna in summer. When it comes to the details, especially a festival organized with a lot of commitment, the context threatens to get lost, which the lovingly filmed miniatures compensate for.
  • EPD-Film, Alexandra Seitz, writes: Walter Großbauer's documentary is less a seasonal portrait of a city than a relaxed hodgepodge of moments of existence and excursions into idiosyncratic lifestyles
  • Joachim Kurz from kino-zeit.de writes: The renowned Quality of Living study by the management consultancy Mercer was recently published, which asked about the world's most livable city. The result was - the large number of fans of the Austrian capital should not be surprised - Vienna. Walter Großbauer's very personal city portrait of the summer in Vienna makes the judgment comprehensible in a sympathetic way: During the summer of 2015, when a heat wave hit Europe, he followed people and their lives on the hottest days of the year and thus shows a microcosm of which one can soon wishing you could be a part of it.
  • Bert Rebhandl writes in tip-Berlin: Enjoyment and joie de vivre: The filmmaker Walter Großbauer celebrates “Summer in Vienna” in his documentary… A cozy film with a very special charm.

Festivals

  • 49th Hof Film Festival, Hof (D), 2015
  • Indie Fest Film Awards, La Jolla (USA), 2015
  • 28 Film Festival Der neue Heimatfilm, Vienna (A), 2015
  • East Silver, Prague (CZ), 2015
  • 14th Film Festival, Radstadt (A), 2015
  • Balinale, Bali International Film Festival (IND), 2016

Awards

  • Award of Merit The Indie Fest 2015, La Jolla - USA

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of release for summer in Vienna . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ↑ credits
  3. ^ Film.at: Summer in Vienna
  4. ↑ oe1.ORF.at Culture: summer in Vienna
  5. ↑ diezeitschrift.at: berhardtopia
  6. ^ Kurier: Summer in Vienna: carp on the sidewalk
  7. ↑ Tiroler Tageszeitung: old pianos, fresh fish and zest for life
  8. ↑ Die Presse: On the luck that lies at the door
  9. ^ Falter: Summer in Vienna
  10. ↑ Programmkino.de reviews
  11. ↑ Summer in Vienna. Filmdienst.de, accessed on March 23, 2016 .
  12. ↑ EPD film review: Summer in Vienna
  13. ↑ kino-zeit.de Summer in Vienna
  14. ↑ tip-berlin.de in the cinema: Summer in Vienna