::: SHOOTING STARS :::

:: DETAILS

Paese/Country:
Austria
Lingue/Languages:
Tedesco, inglese / German, English
Agenzia/Agency:
Agentur Divina
Marketa Modra
Große Neugasse 14/20
1040 Vienna, Austria
Tel.: +4319201577
Fax: +4319205251
E-mail: marketa.modra@divina.at
Web: www.divina.at
In associazione con / Associated with:
Austrian Film Commission




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Reg./Dir.:
Ulrich Seidl
Sogg./Story & Scen./Script:
Veronika Franz
Ulrich Seidl
Fot./Phot.:
Wolfgang Thaler
Mont./Ed.:
Christof Schertenleib
Andrea Wagner
Scg./Art Dir.:
Andreas Donhauser
Renate Martin
Cos.:
Sabine Volz
Int./Cast:
Maria Hofstätter
(L'autostoppista) Alfred Mrva
(Il detective privato)
Erich Finsches (L'anziano)
Gerti Lehner (La domestica)
Prod.:
Philippe Bober
Helmut Grasser
Orig.:
Austria 2001
121' / v.o. austriaco / 35 mm

:: PLOT

In a suburb of Vienna during some hot summer days: a teacher who is in bondage to a sleazy pimp, a very importunate hitchhiker, aprivate detective on the run for some car vandalists, a couple with a serious marriage problem and an old man, whose wife died long before on the search for some sexual entertainment live their lifes while their lifelinescross from time to time.

:: BIOGRAHY

She has been active as both a producer and actress in the Austrian theatre community. She won the International Theatre Award in Schaffhausen for her work in Die Präsidentinnen by Werner Schwab. Her film career began in 1993 with Indien, directed by Paul Harather. In 2001, she starred in the film Dog Days, by Ulrich Seidl, for which she won the Special Jury Award for her lead role Anna at the International Film Festival in Gijon. 2002 and 2003 have been very busy years for Hofstätter, with roles in Poppitz, Twinni, Hurensohn and the new film by Michael Haneke, Wolfzeit.

:: FILMOGRAPHY

FILM SELEZIONATI
Selected films
2001
Hundstage (Dog Days), di Ulrich Seidl
Indien 1993, di Paul Harather
2002
Poppitz, di Harald Sicheritz
2003
Wolfzeit, di Michael Haneke
Hurensohn, di Michael Sturminger
Twinni, di Ulrike Schweiger