Abendland

A film by Nikolaus Geyrhalter

A 2011, 90 Min.
Dolby Digital, HD CAM/35mm, 16:9

Fertiggestellt

Synopsis

A film poem about a continent at night, a culture on which the sun’s going down, though it’s hyper alert at the same time, an “Abendland” that, often somewhat self-obsessively, sees itself as the crown of human civilization, while its service economy is undergoing rapid growth in a thoroughly pragmatic way. Nikolaus Geyrhalter takes a look at a paradise with a quite diverse understanding of protection.

Night work juxtaposed with oblivious evening digression, birth and death, questions that await answers in the semi-darkness, a Babel of languages, the routine of the daily news, and political negotiation: All this has been captured in images with a wealth of details that make us look at things in a new way.

The longer you consider a word, the more distant is its return gaze: ABENDLAND.

Credits

Directed and cinematography:

Nikolaus Geyrhalter

Edited and dramatic structure:

Wolfgang Widerhofer

Script:

Wolfgang Widerhofer

Nikolaus Geyrhalter

Maria Arlamovsky

Sound:

Lea Saby,

Hjalti Bager-Jonathansson

Andreas Hamza

Lenka Mikulova

Nicolas Joly

Ekkehard Baumung

2nd unit cinematography:

Oliver Schneider

Assistant cameramen:

Oliver Schneider

Christoph Grasser

Engelbert Obex

Christoph Steiner

Gerald Piesch

Sebastian Arlamovsky

Additional cinematography:

Matthias Halibrand

Project development and research:

Maria Arlamovsky

Research and production management:

Lucy Ashton

Patricia Rütten-Fuster

Location management:

Lucy Ashton

Philipp Mayrhofer

Palo Pekarcik

Patricia Rütten-Fuster

Alessandra Cardone

Anja Grüner

Bryan Carter

José Martos

Wanda Traeger

Valentina Frigerio

Olimpia Pietrangeli

Nathalie Rendevski Savaricas

Sound Mixing:

Ingo Holub

Sabine Maier

Sound Design:

Daniel Fritz

Production auditor:

Markus Glaser

Executive producer:

Michael Kitzberger

Producers:

Nikolaus Geyrhalter

Markus Glaser

Michael Kitzberger

Wolfgang Widerhofer

Production:

NGF - Nikolaus Geyrhalter Filmproduktion GmbH

with support of:

Österreichisches Filminstitut

Filmfonds Wien

in coproduction with:

ORF Film/Fernsehabkommen

ZDF/3sat

World Sales:
Autlook Filmsales

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ABENDLAND Nikolaus Geyrhalter

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