| Description |
1 online resource (streaming video file) (122 minutes): .flv file, sound |
| Summary |
Famed for his controversial documentaries, Ulrich Seidl makes his first fiction film with this impassioned attack on the banality and emptiness of modern suburban life. Using a documentary shooting style and mostly non-actors, Seidl weaves together a series of vignette story lines into a tapestry of loneliness and quiet desperation. A retired old man obsesses over meaningless information in life -- the weight of his groceries, and noise level of the neighborhood. A faded beauty queen's devotion to her boyfriend ends after an ugly night at the discotheque. A couple who has long since divorced though still lives under the same roof engages in a psychological war of attrition, trying to force the other into moving out the house. A young teacher's date with her boyfriend turns unexpectedly into a drunken orgy. Winner of the Grand Special Jury Prize and Nominated for a Golden Lion at the **Venice International Film Festival.** *"A remarkable, deeply disturbing work by a brilliant filmmaker." - Michael Wilmington, **Chicago Tribune*** |
| Notes |
Title from title frames |
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Film |
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In Process Record |
| Performer |
Christine Jirku, Maria Hofstatter, Viktor Hennemann |
| Event |
Originally produced by Accent Film Entertainment in 2001 |
| Notes |
In English |
| Subject |
Motion pictures, German.
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Foreign films.
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Drama.
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German language.
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Motion pictures.
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Drama
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Motion Pictures
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plays (performing arts compositions)
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drama (literary genre)
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Drama
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Foreign films
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German language
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Motion pictures
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Motion pictures, German
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| Genre/Form |
Feature films
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Feature films.
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| Form |
Streaming video
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| Author |
Seidl, Ulrich, film director
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Jirku, Christine, actor
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Hofstatter, Maria, actor
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Hennemann, Viktor, actor
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Áccent Film Entertainment (Firm)
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Kanopy (Firm)
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