Synopsis
- An old man named Johann Schuff lives in a small carpathian village in the countryside of Romania. He is a Saxon. In his garden he has spread out an old patched sheet. He wants to die there and be eaten by the animals. No music, a simple soldier’s burial. Fifty kilometres away, a woman sits at her gravestone; she is Landleri. Maria Huber has already lived five years past the date of death that is engraved on her stone. The National Socialist regime turned them into perpetrators and into victims. With the fall of Hitler, he has also fallen. She, on the other hand, had to go into a work camp for 6 years. The film shows two very humorous, but broken people, who witnessed the disappearance of their own culture. Their national pride forbade them from “mixing” with other peoples. Now both of them are old, alone, and they want to die. The best thing would be to simply “disappear” from the world. The director, Gerald Igor Hauzenberger, has been listening to the two persons for the past six years. No one else has come here. From year to year the friendship has developed and a film portrait of the two has emerged, which emotionally describes the history of the last century. Only at the end of their lives, they are finally willing to retell the tragic experiences of their beings.
Crew
- Director: Gerald Igor Hauzenberger
- Screenplay: Gerald Igor Hauzenberger
- Director of photography: Marco F. Zimprich, Dominik Spritzendorfer
- Editor (Cut): Gerald Igor Hauzenberger, Michael Palm
- Score: Probstdorfer Blaskapelle
- Producer: Géza Horvat, Arash, Gerald Igor Hauzenberger
- Sound: Martin Zinggl, Dominik Spritzendorfer
- Research: Sabine Kraberger, Alexandra Braschel, Martin Zinggl, Sybille Bettstein
- Digital Colourist: Matthias Smycka
- Soundcutter: Nina Slatosch
- Sound re-recording mixer: Synchro Film, Two Spirits
- Script Consultant: Thomas Slunecko, Vera Pesata
- Translator: Andrea Resch, Anita Pelger, David Ender
- Title Designer: Sabine Kraberger
- Stills photographer: Martin Zinggl, Mauro D'Agati
- Associate producer: Stephanie Wagner
Awards
- (2007) Fipresci Award, Cluj/Sibiu
- (2007) Hauptpreis
- (2007) Erasmus Euromedia
Festivals
- (2007) Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis, Saarbrücken
- (2007) International Filmfestival, Rotterdam
- (2007) Diagonale, Graz
- (2007) Crossing Europe, Linz
- (2007) Transylvania International Filmfestival, Cluj/Sibiu
- (2007) Cinéfleuve / Kino im Fluss, LU, F, D
- (2007) Era New Horizons, Wrozlaw
- (2007) Festival des Neuen Heimatfilms, Freistadt
- (2007) Exile Filmfestival, Göteburg
- (2007) Astra Filmfestival, Sibiu
- (2007) DokMa Filmfestival, Maribor
- (2007) Sheffield Doc/Fest, Sheffield
- (2008) Film Festival della Lessinia
- (2007) Nordlicht Filmfestival, Leeuwarden
- (2007) Saratov Suffering Filmfestival
- (2007) Kulturfabrik Esch, Luxemburg
- (2008) Tartu Festival, Tartu
- (2008) Belfast Filmfestival, Belfast
