How to Live (film)
How to Live is a film by the Austrian director David Schalko .
action
In the 1990s , the overweight Karl "Charly" Kolostrum tried to find his way in terms of professional and sexual positioning after graduating from high school . Aunt Ernestine is an important caregiver in his life who supports him. Relationships fail, friendships are made, time flies.
The fourth wall is repeatedly broken through in fade-ins for quotes from various life advice books or to suggest alternative storylines that arise from Charly's imagination. When he ran into financial difficulties while studying art history, he tried to secure an additional income as a callboy . He then proved himself in a column in Germany and as a taxi driver. Charly moves into a shared apartment.
Charly's alleged complicity in three deaths is discussed episodically. At the age of 30, he was interviewed on television by a work colleague after his employer was murdered. After he intones a song in the meantime, he becomes a pop star. This income enables him to set up his own small taxi company.
production
The film was shot in spring 2010 and released on October 7, 2011. The novel of the same name by Thomas Glavinic , published in 2004, served as a template for the film . The production was carried out by the Dor Film company with the participation of the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation , the distribution is running at Filmladen . Control the soundtrack to the film and a. Florian Horwath and Cosmix Music with their songs "Schnitzi, Schnitzi" or "Taxi Blues". Main actor Axel Ranisch was dubbed by the Viennese actor Thomas Mraz because of his Berlin dialect .
Web links
- How to live in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- How to Live in the Online Film Database
- Website for the film