Ugly (2017)

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Movie
Original title Ugly
Country of production Austria , Ukraine
original language German , Russian , English
Publishing year 2017
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Director Yuri Rechinsky
script Juri Rechinsky,
Klaus Pridnig
production Franz Novotny ,
Alexander Glehr ,
Maxim Asadchiy ,
Ulrich Seidl
music Anton Baibakov
camera Sebastian Thaler ,
Wolfgang Thaler
cut Roland Stöttinger
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Cast and staff of the film at the International Film Festival Rotterdam 2017

Ugly is an Austrian - Ukrainian coproduction by Juri Rechinsky from 2017 . The feature film premiered on January 30, 2017 as part of the International Film Festival Rotterdam in the Bright Future section . In Austria, the film was shown in March 2017 at the Diagonale in Graz . The cinema release took place in Austria on March 2, 2018.

action

The film tells the story of the Austrian Hanna and the Ukrainian Jura and their families. After a car accident, Hanna lies in a Ukrainian hospital and struggles to survive. Her friend Jura has to watch helplessly. Her mother Martha, who lives in Vienna, has Alzheimer's disease, Martha's husband Josef tries to support her as much as possible. The film is a snapshot of Austria and Ukraine and the different mentalities, human suffering and relationships in everyday life.

production

The shooting took place from February to May 2014, and the shooting took place in Austria and Ukraine. The film was supported by the Austrian Film Institute , Filmstandort Austria and the Ukrainian State Film Agency, with ORF involved . The film was produced by the Austrian Novotny & Novotny Film ; the Ukrainian Pronto Film and Ulrich Seidl Filmproduktion were co-producers .

Conrad Moritz Reinhardt was responsible for the production design, Oksana Melnychuk for the costume design, Andrii Rogachov and Klaus Kellermann for the sound and Wiltrud Derschmidt and Sam Dopona for the mask. This film is the feature film debut of the Ukrainian director Juri Rechinsky, who lives in Vienna, based on his documentary Sickfuckpeople (2013).

Awards

  • 2017: Diagonale -Prize for image design, best image design for feature film

reception

The daily newspaper Der Standard wrote that Rechinsky had made an uncompromising feature film debut. Ugly is “a film whose radicalism you have to get involved with, and you are rewarded with monstrous images like the one in which an apocalyptic storm breaks over a grain field.” “Anyone who says that the Austrian feature film is lacking in radicalism is a very special visit Films advised. Ugly is the name of the disturbing debut by Juri Rechinsky, with which the filmmaker [...] impressively proves the contrary. Nothing is ugly in this film, but a lot is beautiful. [...] In Ugly every picture is an artfully staged and yet raw snapshot [...]. In fact, one feels reminded of the violent cinema Lars von Triers . "

The Diagonale jury justified the award for the best picture design feature film with: “In a fragmentary film with few dialogues, in which much is not spoken, the visual language takes over an important part of the narrative. […] Through the symbiosis of spontaneous and unkitsched, but at the same time highly composed images, the film develops a real pull that is difficult to escape. Due to the variety of subjects, lighting moods and compositions and the constantly surprising new perspectives, the film is always in motion despite its calm narrative. "

The Tiroler Tageszeitung stated: “Ugly is a slow, often tormenting piece of cinema [...] told with grandiose pictures. The only thing left is [...]: Fate sets the plane . "

Web links

Commons : Ugly (film, 2017)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Diagonale 2017: Ugly . Retrieved August 9, 2017.
  2. ↑ a b Ugly. In: Austrian Film Institute . Retrieved August 9, 2017 .
  3. ↑ a b Diagonale: Diagonale price for image design . Retrieved August 9, 2017.
  4. ↑ derStandard.at: Diagonale: Generation with fine sensors . Article dated April 1, 2017, accessed August 9, 2017.
  5. ↑ derStandard.at: Maria Hofstätter in "Ugly": The unadorned in this world . Article dated March 1, 2018, accessed March 1, 2018.
  6. ↑ Tiroler Tageszeitung: Many symbols for the meaning of life . Article dated March 1, 2018, accessed March 5, 2020.