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BREATHING
[ATMEN]
by Karl Markovics
Austria 2011 93 min. original version
wed 20 nov 10:30 am Caligari FilmBühne
Script: Karl Markovics, DoP: Martin Gschlacht, Editor: Alarich Lenz, Production: Epo-Film, Producers: Dieter Pochlatko, Nikolaus Wisiak, Cast: Thomas Schubert, Karin Lischka, Gerhard Liebmann, Georg Friedrich, Stefan Matousch, Georg Veitl
19-year-old Roman Kogler has a chance to be released early from his young offenders’ institution. The odds are against him, however: he is an uncommunicative and solitary character without a family and doesn’t seem to be fit for re-socialization. As a day-release prisoner he has a job at a funeral home. Of all things, it is this job dealing with death that shows him the path back to life.
“Austrian thesp Karl Markovics makes a very confident directorial debut with his small but perfectly formed slice of stylized social realism, BREATHING. (…) Winner of the Directors’ Fortnight prize for European film, this specialty item should come up for air in further fest outings, with a few deeper breaths at adventurous arthouses worldwide." (Variety)
Biography: Karl Markovics, born on August 29, 1963 in Vienna (Austria), is a respected stage actor, appearing in many theater plays and musicals. He starred as Salomon Sorowitsch in Stefan Ruzowitzky’s 2007 film THE COUNTERFEITERS, which was awarded the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and more recently in the film UNKNOWN IDENTITY. BREATHING is his first feature film as a writer and director.
Filmography: 2011 ATMEN
Awards (selection): "Heart of Sarajevo" for Best Film and Award for Best Actor to Thomas Schubert (Sarajevo Film Festival, Bosnia Herzegovina 2011), six Austrian Film Awards (Vienna/Austria 2012)
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