Viennese Blood (2019)

Movie
Original title	Viennese blood
Country of production	Austria
original language	German
Publishing year	2019
length	90 minutes
Rod
Director	Barbara Eder
script	Martin Ambrosch
production	Heinrich Ambrosch , ; Bettina Kuhn
music	Johannes Vogel
camera	Martin Gschlacht
cut	Karin Hammer
occupation
	Melika Foroutan : Fida Emam; Charlotte Schwab : Afifa Emam; Noelia Chirazi : Aline Emam; Martin Niedermair : Michael Körner; Nathanael Weiser : Son Burger; Florian Stetter : Ferdinand Mahler; Harald Windisch : Markus Glösl; Florian Teichtmeister : Guntram Schneider; Hassan Kello : Djamal Hemidi; Harald Schrott : Stefan Meer; Stipe Erceg : Ahmed Rahimsai; Maria Hofstätter : Forensic specialist; Lilian Klebow : Andrea Körner; Lisa-Lena Tritscher : Mag. Hromatka; Birgit Linauer : school director; Erol Nowak : Peter Unger;

Wiener Blut is an Austrian feature film from 2019 by director Barbara Eder based on a script by Martin Ambrosch with Melika Foroutan , Charlotte Schwab , Harald Windisch and Harald Schrott . The premiere took place on June 28, 2019 as part of the Munich Film Festival in the New German Television series . The first broadcast on ORF took place on October 6, 2019.

action

The thriller tells an Egyptian - Viennese family story about three generations of women living in one household who find themselves in a political conspiracy.

The Viennese public prosecutor Fida Emam, whose roots are in Egypt, lives under one roof with her mother Afifa and her daughter Aline. One day she was called by the police officer Markus Glösl to a bridge over the Danube, where Karl Burger, an employee of the financial market supervisory authority , was found hanged. Initially, a suicide is assumed, but Glösl has doubts about this due to the circumstances and insists on an autopsy and the initiation of a procedure on suspicion of murder. The autopsy confirms that Burger was murdered.

Fida learns from Burger's colleague Ferdinand Mahler that Burger recently investigated a Viennese private bank Meer on suspicion of money laundering . The bank had business connections with the radical Islamic association Milla . Stefan Meer, CEO of the bank, had bought a Viennese apartment building at an inflated price from that association through a mailbox company. Meer is also very well networked with politics and the ministry, for example with Section Head Schneider.

The prosecutor also has to realize that her daughter Aline is also sympathetic to this association and has fallen for classmate Djamal Hemidi, who goes in and out of Imam Ahmed Rahimsai. When Fida's apartment is broken into, her computer and a USB stick with documents relating to the case are stolen. The ministry is putting pressure on Judge Michael Körner, Aline's father. The search warrant for the Meer bank is surprisingly revoked and the public prosecutor's office pulls Fida off the case. At Glösl, Peter Unger is a suspect in the Burger case, he confesses to having strangled Burger in the course of sexual acts, but Glösl doubts his statements.

Meanwhile, the police discovered a video from surveillance cameras showing Aline buying chemicals to make explosives. Based on a video in which Aline threatens unbelievers with death, it is assumed that Aline is planning a suicide bombing at Vienna Central Station , where Djamal Hemidi is arrested while Aline rescues her mother. Fida is shot at the Rahimsai train station, and Glösl puts Rahimsai out of action with one shot. Fida wakes up again in the hospital, where she visits Burger's colleague Mahler and tells her to continue investigating the Meer bank. Stefan Meer is finally found hanged in his office, where Glösl arrests Section Head Schneider after he was the contact between the Meer bank and the Islamic association Mila.

production

One of the locations: Vienna Central Station

The shooting took place from November 5th to 29th, 2018 in Vienna . The location was among other things the Vienna Central Station . The film was produced by Satel Film , with Austrian radio and ZDF involved, and the production was supported by the Austrian TV Fund and the Vienna Film Fund .

Axel Traun was responsible for the sound, Katrin Huber and Gerhard Dohr for the production design , Christine Ludwig for the costumes and Monika Puymann and Danijela Brdar for the mask.

reception

Nora Bruckmüller found in the Upper Austrian News that the film felt very lengthy and partly empty for well over half of it. “The wonderfully gliding shots (camera: Martin Gschlacht ) and the moods delicately staged by director Barbara Eder don't help either. In terms of content, it would have needed a lot more bite much earlier. Just like Emam has. A woman who is as rough as just old crime scene inspectors. "