Danube Hospital

A film by Nikolaus Geyrhalter
A 2012, 75 min.
HDCam
Fertiggestellt

Synopsis

DANUBE HOSPITAL, a portrait of one of Europe’s largest hospitals, shows the daily routines and work processes at a powerful and highly complex institution. By depicting a modern healthcare facility,

DANUBE HOSPITAL holds a mirror to our society to show how it deals with health and illness, life and death.

 

Nikolaus Geyrhalter observes what goes on in a variety of zones, in conference areas, ORs, patients’ rooms, the disinfection and pathology departments, and the kitchen. As the film visits all these areas, it follows an ingenious principle of a puzzle whose pieces produce an effect only when fully assembled.

A portrait of an institution in which the relationships between processes that are invisible to patients and visitors are shown in all their precision.

 

Credits

Director

Nikolaus Geyrhalter

 

Assistant Director

Judith Zdesar

 

Sound/Assistant Camera

Christoph Grasser

 

Photography

Nikolaus Geyrhalter

 

Editor

Andrea Wagner

Producers:

Markus Glaser

Michael Kitzberger

Wolfgang Widerhofer

Nikolaus Geyrhalter

 

Production:

NGF - Nikolaus Geyrhalter Filmproduktion GmbH

 

A coproduction with

ORF

arte

 

With support of

Filmfonds Wien

Fernsehfonds Austria

 

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Awards

Honorable Mention - World Pulse Culturgest Award, IndieLisboa International Film Festival (2013)
Nomination for the Prix Europa, (2012)

Festivals

Montreal World Film Festival, 2012
IDFA, International Documentary Festival Amsterdam, 2012
Duisburg Film Festival, 2012
FIDMarseille, 2012
Hof International Film Festival, 2012
Diagonale, Festival of Austrian Film, Graz, 2012
CMU International Film Festival Pittsburgh, 2013
IndieLisboa International Film Festival , 2013
Riviera Maya Film Festival, México, 2013
Planete Doc Film Festival, Warsaw, 2013
a.o.


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