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Friday, 17th July 2009
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8.30pm CONCERT
Die Strottern
9.30pm HERZAUSREISSER
A 2008. Director: Karin Berger. 85 Min.
English subtitles.
Songs about the longing for love and death. A couple of audacious fellows are trying to interpret Viennese Songs, old stories about rolling away and staying here, about drinking and resignationen, in a new ways: among them Oskar Aichinger, Walter Malli, Doris Windhager, Die Strottern, Walther Soyka and the Kollegium Kalksburg. In conversations musical and biographical issues came up for discussions. “I would have loved to be born in Chicago”, tells Roland Neuwirth, “but I was born in Wien”. Affectionate, critical, 85 minutes entertaining Viennensia.
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Saturday, 18th July 2009
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8.30pm CONCERT
Götz Spielmann presents sterzinger solo, accordion
9.30pm REVANCHE
A 2007. Director: Götz Spielmann. With Johannes Krisch, Ursula Strauss, Andreas Lust, Irina Potapenko, Hannes Thanheiser, Hanno Pöschl. 121 Min.
English subtitles.
Playing cops and robbers, two different worlds crashing together, one shot: The unintended death of a young woman links the lives of three people and changes them from the ground up. “Is it about revenge? About reconciliation? About the search for identity? These are all catchwords, they don’t mean anything“, says Götz Spielmann about the content of „Revanche“: A dense, intensively played and perfectly staged neo-sentimental play with a regional background that reminds of moving moments of French psychological crime thrillers from the 1970s.
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Monday, 20th July 2009
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8.30pm QUIZ
Guessing Game for famous quotations.
With quiz master Olaf Möller.
9.30pm LANGSAMER SOMMER
A 1974-76. Director: John Cook. With John Cook, Helmut Boselmann, Eva Grimm, Hilde und Michael Pilz. 84 Min. English subtitles.
ummer in Vienna. Stages of a friendship. John is Canadian, a photographer living a grotesque love life, Helmut a hard working photomonger. Michael is married, has a child and is sitting in front of a typewriter. Walks and conversations, excursions to the country, followed by reflections about photographing and making movies. Looming relationships and such that come to nothing. Walk on the wild side. “Michael”, asks John, drinking a beer for breakfast, “don’t you know a nice woman for me?” “No, but I can read an aphorism to you”. A masterpiece of Viennese movies.
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Tuesday, 21st July 2009
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8.30pm DANCING CLASS
Dürfen wir bitten!
Waltz with pink zebra theatre.
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9.30pm DER KONGRESS TANZT
D 1931. Director: Erik Charell. With Lilian Harvey, Willy Fritsch, Conrad Veidt, Lil Dagover, Otto Wallburg, Julius Falkenstein. 101 Min.
A musical costume drama playing in 1814 at the time of the Congress of Vienna. A pretty glove-saleswoman gets into the turmoil of global politics. First of all Christel is being arrested as a suspected alleged assassin. Then the czar Alexander falls in love with the lively girl. Metternich (dark: Conrad Veidt!) uses this situation for his advantage, because, whilst Christel is bringing Alexander the Viennese lifestyle near, he can concentrate on conspiring. “Featureless like Kaiserschmarrn”, beefs film critic Siegfried Kracauer after the premiere – Connoisseurs sweet delicacies are recommended even more accurate!
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Wednesday, 22nd July 2009
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8.30pm READING
Film in between the lines.
Amaryllis Sommerer reads a screenplay.
9.30pm DIE PRAXIS DER LIEBE
A/BRD 1984. Director: Valie Export. With Adelheid Arndt, Rüdiger Vogler, Elisabeth Vitouch, Günther Nenning, Gary Indiana. 90 Min.
English subtitles.
Judith, a young journalist, is bound to modern data channels like “The third man” to the canalisation, for she needs to investigate an inexplicable accident in a Viennese subway station. In the course of research she finds out that maybe her ex-boyfriend and the extreme right-wing arms business is involved in this matter. Export’s much discussed “Thriller” combines history of film with new media, feministic self-discovery and intellectual comedy, all stylistic devices of the avant-garde. A great story is being told.
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