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Friday, 3rd July 2009
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8.30pm OPENING
In attendance of the director and the film team.
9.30pm RIMINI
A 2009. Director: Peter Jaitz. With Robert Reinagl, Andreas Winter, Sissi Noé. 83 Min.
Almost like a David Lynch movie two stories are developing seemingly not connected with each other, but culminating at the end of the story in a crash of sudden violence. Alex, 30 years old, quits his job, without really knowing why. Hans, a frustrated detective, knows what he wants, but isn’t allowed to do so anymore. Not many dialogues, but a lot of action is happening. It is about posing and staging, about observing and being observed. Peter Jaitz’ feature film debut comes up with new turns full of dramatic art and laconical humor.
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Monday, 6th July 2009
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8.30pm READING
Und nun mal ganz ernst.
Ostrowski & Friends are reading literature about drugs.
9.30pm CONTACT HIGH
A/D/PL/LUX 2009. Director: Michael Glawogger. With Michael Ostrowski, Raimund Wallisch, Georg Friedrich, Detlev Buck, Pia Hierzegger. 98 Min.
What a weed! Policemen with pig’s snouts, people walking backwards, hotel rooms shrinking into the size of a doll house. An abandoned suitcase with controversial content represents the beginning of this psychedelic farce. 4 dumb guys start on an adventure in the east to be the first one to get to the hot goods. One of them, Schorschi, a tall blond guy with a Ford Mustang, supplies entertainment. Georg Friedrich, the actor playing Schorschi, knows, why: “Every moron thinks he is clever, otherwise he wouldn’t be a moron.”
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Tuesday, 7th July 2009
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8.30pm DANCING CLASS
Dürfen wir bitten!
Waltz with pink zebra theatre
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9.30pm WIENER MÄDELN
D/A 1944/49. Director: Willi Forst. With Willi Forst, Judith Holzmeister, Hans Moser, Dora Komar, Curd Jürgens, Friedl Haerlin. 109 Min.
Escapism in Agfacolor: Life and functioning of Carl Michael Ziehrer (1843-1922), a Waltz-composer from Vienna, who played second fiddle to Johann Strauß all his life. Willi Forst stages his story as an epos in shimmering turquoise pastel shades and plays the main role himself. The shooting started in 1944/45, but couldn’t be finished until years after the end of the second world war. At the end of the film Waltz-music prevails american military marches.
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Wednesday, 8th July 2009
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English subtitled!
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8.30pm READING
Eine Beute der Dünste des Rausches. James Joyce and the alcohol.
Kurt Palm reads from his book.
9.30pm IN SCHWIMMEN ZWEI VÖGEL
A 1997. Director: Kurt Palm. With Andreas Sobik, Renato Uz, Johannes Friesinger, Andi Karner, Karl Ferdinand Kratzl, Harry Rowohlt. 86 Min.
English subtitles.
A young author tries to write a new novel. Mythological heroes, irish poets, diverse bohemian people and cowboys play a role in this novel, but most of the times these roles don’t fit. “Go back to the prairie where you are coming from!”, advises Wolfgang Bauer two Outlaws, who are waiting in front of the School for Poetry. The preposterous sarcasm of Flann O’Briens famous novel survives in this film. But the rest is created by himself: his own Palmfilmland. Where else can Conan the Barbarian and the Master of magical thumb-sucking sit and talk together?
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Thursday, 9th July 2009
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8.30pm TALK
Only men understand, what men unites!
Andreas Vitasek & Christian Schmidt in a conversation with Claus Philipp
9.30pm MÜLLERS BÜRO
A 1986. Director: Niki List. With Christian Schmidt, Andreas Vitasek, Barbara Rudnik, Sue Tauber, I Stangl. 95 Min.
Max Müller, private detective, monologue: “It was a day like any other. I sat in my office and drank the last belt of whiskey. I waited. My wallet was as empty as my bottle of whiskey, my bank confiscated my credit card weeks ago, my secretary Miss Schick only keeps coming to the office, because she is in love with me. I am thinking that I should have listened to my old man, at the time he offered me a job at his company, but then she came in…” That is how “Müllers Büro” starts, that is how the new Austrian film started.
>>Programme 10.7. to 16.7.
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