Dog Days Austria
2001, 127min.
Prod.: Philippe Bober, Helmut Grasser, Script: Ulrich Seidl, Veronika Franz, Dir.: Ulrich Seidl, Dir. of Phot.: Wolfgang Thaler, Prod. Design: Andreas Donhauser, Renate Martin, Sound: Ekkehart Baumung, Sound Design: Matz Müller, Edit.: Christof Schertenleib, Andrea Wagner
Cast: Maria Hofstätter (The hitchhiker), Alfred Mrva (Security Guard), Erich Finsches (Old Man), Gerti Lehner (Housekeeper)
In a suburb of Vienna during some hot summer days: a teacher who is in bondage to a sleazy pimp, a very importunate hitchhiker, a private detective on the run for some car vandals, a couple with a serious marriage problem and an old man, whose wife died long before on the search for some sexual entertainment live their lives while their lifelines cross from time to time.
Awards
Grand Special Jury Prize (Venice Film Festival 2001), Grand Prix Asturias, Special Jury Award (Gijón International Film Festival 2001), Special Jury Prize, FIPRESCI Prize (Bratislava International Film Festival 2001), Jury Award (Bergen International Film Festival 2002)
| Seidl, Ulrich Ulrich Seidl (born 1952, Vienna, Country)
Ulrich Seidl is the director of numerous award-winning documentaries such as Jesus, You Know, Models and Animal Love. His work methods, achieving the greatest possible authenticity and showing people in the most solitary and personal moments, has aroused intense debate. His first fiction feature Dog Days won the Grand Jury Special Prize at the 2001 Venice IFF. Seidl’s second feature film Import/Export has been sold to 20 countries. The film has won three prizes (Bangkok, Golden Apricot, Yerevan and Palic Tower (for the best acting ensemble Palic (Serbien). The film has been invited to about 80 festivals so far including Munich, Moscow, Karlovy Vary, Jerusalem, Sarajevo, Toronto, London, Copenhagen, Sao Paolo and Seoul. Two retrospective screenings (in La Rochelle and Sarajevo) have shown Ulrich Seidl’s previous work, with two further retros in Belgium and Sweden.
Filmography
Einsvierzig (1980), Ball, Der (1982), Look 84 (1984), Good News: Von Kolporteuren, toten Hunden und anderen Wienern (1990), Loss Is to Be Expected (Mit Verlust ist zu rechnen, 1992), Die Letzten Männer (1994), Animal Love (Tierische Liebe, 1995), Spass ohne Grenzen (1998), Models (1999), Dog Days (Hundstage, 2001), State of the Nation: Austria in Six Chapters (Zur Lage: Österreich in sechs Kapiteln, 2002), Jesus, You Know (Jesus, Du weisst, 2003), Brothers, Let Us Be Merry (2006), Import/Export (2007)
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