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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Awards

Diagonale austrian editors association aea Prize, Diagonale (2011)
Nomination: Best Documentary, Austrian Film Award (2012)
Millennium Award, Planete Doc Film Festival, Warsaw (2011)
The Canon Cinematography Award, Honorable Mention, Planete Doc Film Festival, Warsaw (2011)
Grand Prix Special Mention, Split Film Festival (2011)

Festivals

Diagonale, Festival of Austrian Film, Graz, 2011
MoMA's International Festival of Nonfiction Film and Media, New York, 2012
Split Film Festival, 2011
Milano Film Festival, 2011
Fünf Seen Film Festival, 2011
Dokufest Prizren, 2011
Sarajevo International Film Festival, 2011
Moscow International Film Festival, 2011
Isola Cinema Festival, Ljubljana, 2011
Planete Doc Film Festival, Warsaw, 2011
International Documentary Film Festival Munich, 2011
Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival Toronto, 2011
Visions du Réel, Nyon, 2011
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