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Virgil Widrich | Austria, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg | 2016 | 92 min | German | e.s.
Just before mother is to transfer the family business and the accompanying imposing mansion to her son, she collapses. This is fortunate for her other son because he is in danger of losing out owing to his far-right sympathies. Yet her death turns out to be not as final as hoped; as she signs her will a little later, other dead relatives appear. Everyone apart from Hermann Ullich, the head of the family, who died in 1945 in Vienna in a bombing raid. At least, that’s what people thought. During a long night, more and more indications emerge that history actually took a very different course.
Virgil Widrich does not allow himself to be hemmed in by something as banal as reality in this lighthearted murder mystery. Dead people walk into the room as if they have never been away. How passé is the past?, the film seems to ask. There are certainly a couple of old political ghosts that have certainly not yet come to rest.
Place: CINEMA 4
Date: 8 April 2017
Time: 19:00
Duration: 1:14
Place: CINEMA 4
Date: 9 April 2017
Time: 15:15
Duration: 1:12
Year in
Festival
2017
Director
Camera
Christian Berger
Cast
Laurence Rupp
Amira Casar
Barbara Petritsch
Elisabeth Rath
Linde Prelog
Johann Adam Oest
Lukas Miko
Country
Austria
Belgium
Netherlands
Luxembourg
Editor
Pia Dumont
Language
German
Length
92 min
Music
Siegfried Friedrich
Producer
Alexander Dumreicher Ivanceanu
Bady Minck
Raphael Barth / Golden Girls Filmproduktion & Filmservices
Production Company
Amour Fou
Minotaurus Film
Golden Girls Filmproduktion & Filmservices
KeyFilm
Production Design
Christina Schaffer
Sales
Picture Tree International
Scenario
Virgil Widrich
Sound Design
Michel Schillings
Year of Production
2016
Virgil WIDRICH (1967, Austria) created his first film project, a documentary about his family, at age thirteen. In 2000, his feature film Heller als der Mond, selected for the IFFR Tiger Awards Competition, premiered at IFFR. A year later, his short film Copy Shop was nominated for an Oscar. Widrich is a professor of Art and Science at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. Night of a 1000 Hours (2016) is his first feature film since Heller als der Mond.
Filmography
(selection) Auch Farbe kann träumen (1981, short), Monster in Salzburg (1982, short), Vom Geist der Zeit (1985), tx-transform (1998, short), Heller als der Mond (2000), Copy Shop (2001, short), Fast Film (2003, short), Make/Real (2010, short), Warning Triangle (2011, short), Back Track (2015, short), Die Nacht der Tausend Stunden/Night of a 1000 Hours (2016)