How I learned to be a child with myself (film)

Movie
Original title	How I learned to be a child of myself
Country of production	Austria
original language	German
Publishing year	2019
length	140 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12 JMK 12
Rod
Director	Rupert Henning
script	Uli Brée , Rupert Henning
production	Danny Krausz , Kurt Stocker
music	Kyrre Kvam
camera	Josef Mittendorfer
cut	Alarich Lenz
occupation
Karl Markovics : Roman Silberstein Valentin Hagg : Paul Silberstein Sabine Timoteo : Emma Silberstein André Wilms : Uncle Louis Udo Samel : Uncle Bel / Tibor Silberstein Werner Friedl: Uncle Monte Nikolaas von Schrader : Johannes Silberstein Mario Canedo : Seyss Stefan Puntigam : Father Hornik Harald Schrott : Father Mokloszi Emanuel Fellmer : Andrak Erhard Hartmann : Ministerial Officer Lino Gaier : pupil Gabor Benedek Robert Seethaler : General Prefect Gerti Drassl : Sister Immaculata Marianne Nentwich : Aunt Tuva Christian Strasser : Vice Prefect Crespi Petra Morzé : Mrs. Wanschura Christoph Krutzler : Mr. Wanschura, butcher Sigrid Hauser : Berta Marie-Christine Friedrich : Mrs. Degasperi Isabel Karajan : Mrs. Martinek Dominik Warta : Policeman

How I learned to be a child with myself is an Austrian feature film by Rupert Henning from 2019 with Karl Markovics , Valentin Hagg and Sabine Timoteo . The screenplay by Uli Brée and Rupert Henning is based on the story of the same name published in 2008 with autobiographical features by André Heller . The premiere took place on February 20, 2019 in the Wiener Gartenbaukino . The Austrian theatrical release took place on March 1, 2019. In Germany, the film was released on April 25, 2019.

action

The twelve-year-old Paul Silberstein comes from an old Austrian confectioner dynasty. Paul is educated and eloquent and grew up in Austria in the late 1950s in a wealthy family, but poor in terms of mutual affection. His father Roman Silberstein is a convert to Catholicism Jewish Viennese confectionery producer and an eccentric and despotic patriarch, who as a staunch opponent of Adolf Hitler by the Nazis was driven into exile. On his return he tries to take revenge, his anger turns into bitter cynicism, which he takes out on his wife and children.

Only his youngest son Paul dares to oppose him, and his father banishes him to the Jesuit boarding school Attweg. For Paul the boarding school is a prison from which he tries to escape into his own world with the help of his imagination and dreams. One day his unapproachable mother appears unexpectedly at the college and informs him of the death of his father. At his funeral he meets his three uncles: Uncle "Louis" from Louisiana , Uncle "Bel" from Belfast and Uncle Monte from Montevideo . As a result, he learns more about the family history of the Silbersteins and gets to know and understand his father and his biography a little better.

production

One of the locations: The Hermes Villa

The shooting took place from September to November 2017, and the shooting took place in Upper Austria , Vienna and the Czech Republic . St. Florian Monastery was used as the filming location for the Attweg College and the Hermesvilla in the Lainzer Tiergarten in Vienna- Hietzing for the Silberstein villa . The Hellers, on the other hand, lived in Adolf Loos' house near Schönbrunn Zoo . The scenes in the library were recorded in the Palais Fürstenberg . The film was also shot in Gmunden .

The film was supported by the Austrian Film Institute , the Vienna Film Fund , Filmstandort Austria and the Province of Upper Austria , and the Austrian and Saarland broadcasters as well as Arte were involved . The film was produced by Dor Film .

Moritz Fritsch and Ingo Pusswald were responsible for the sound and sound design, Christine Ludwig for the costume design, Katharina Wöppermann for the production design and Helene Lang and Roman Braunhofer for the mask. The budget was around four million euros.

reception

Barbara Petsch found in the daily newspaper Die Presse that the film would appear more tragic than the book, which also had comic passages. The book is also better because it is a language museum. The film was quite long, but not too long. Some pictures would be reminiscent of Visconti , others of Herzmanovsky-Orlando . She judged: "All in all: worth seeing for friends of art film, there are too few of these dreamy creations."

Sabrina Lohinger described the film in TV-Media as "a strangely touching drama". The humor would not be neglected either. Her conclusion: "A beautifully staged, touching film, but half an hour too long."

Thomas Fanta said in the Wiener Zeitung that it was difficult to distinguish between reality and invention in both the book and the film adaptation. “The best thing to do is to separate the story from the name Heller and view it as an unusual, dark coming-of-age self-discovery. In any case, the game is first-class. "

The first broadcast on ORF on May 2, 2020 was followed by 515,000 viewers.

Awards and nominations

Christine Ludwig with the Austrian Film Award 2020

German Film and Media Rating (FBW)

• "Particularly valuable" rating

Austrian Film Award 2020

• Nomination in the category Best Male Actor (Valentin Hagg)
• Award in the category Best Costume Design ( Christine Ludwig )
• Nomination in the Best Mask category (Helene Lang and Roman Braunhofer)

Romy Awards 2020

• Nomination in the category Best Book Cinema (Uli Brée and Rupert Henning)

Web links

• As I learned, even child to be with me at the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Official website
• How I learned to be a child with myself on filmladen.at
• How I learned to be a child with myself at DOR Film
• How I learned to be a child with myself at crew united
• How I learned to be a child with myself on ORF.at

Individual evidence

1. ^ Certificate of Release for How I Learned to Be a Child with Myself . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 187280 / K).
2. ↑ Age label for How I learned to be a child with myself . Youth Media Commission .
3. ↑ Kurier: How I learned to be a child with myself . Article dated February 8, 2019, accessed February 9, 2019.
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Austrian Film Institute. Retrieved February 9, 2019 . 
5. ↑ ^{a b} Austrian Film Institute: How I learned to be a child with myself . Retrieved February 9, 2019.
6. ↑ filmstarts.de: How I learned to be a child with myself . Retrieved February 9, 2019.
7. ↑ ^{a b} Kurier: The death of the father as liberation and redemption . Article dated November 6, 2017, accessed February 9, 2019.
8. ↑ Gmunden becomes a film set again . Article dated September 22, 2017, accessed February 9, 2019.
9. ↑ How I learned to be a child with myself at crew united . Retrieved February 9, 2019.
10. ^ Filmfonds Wien: How I learned to be a child with myself . Retrieved February 9, 2019.
11. ↑ “How I learned to be a child with myself”: That's how it was, the post-war childhood . Article dated February 28, 2019, accessed March 30, 2019.
12. ↑ TV-Media No. 10/2019, page 142 ff .: Don't become like everyone you don't want to be . Retrieved March 30, 2019.
13. ^ Wiener Zeitung: Film Review: Death as Liberation . Article dated February 27, 2019, accessed March 30, 2019.
14. ↑ ORF in May 2020: 31.4 percent market share for broadcasting group. June 2, 2020, accessed May 2, 2020 . 
15. ↑ German film review and media review FBW: How I learned to be a child with myself . Retrieved April 24, 2019.
16. ^ Nominations for the Austrian Film Prize 2020. In: Academy of Austrian Films . Retrieved December 4, 2019 . 
17. ↑ ROMY Academy Awards: The playing field for experts. In: Kurier.at . March 11, 2020, accessed March 11, 2020 .