Paul Ertl

Birth : , Vienna, Austria

History

Paul Ertl was born in Vienna in 1979 and worked in many capacities on film sets and in productions during his Communication and Film and Media studies. The cofounder and manager of the legendary coffee shop/video store Oz Cinethek and longtime employee at the Austrian distributor Filmladen was awarded the City of Vienna’s dramatist grant for his first screenplay, Durst. Rupture is his directing debut, produced in collaboration with the Vienna Film Academy.

Movies

Rupture
Rupture
Director
Mrs. Pospisil lives alone in an apartment in an old building in Vienna. The elderly lady's increasing forgetfulness prompts her son to suggest that she move into a nursing home. But then suddenly a crack opens up in one of the walls of her apartment, through which something enters Mrs. Pospisil's world that will change her life forever. Paul Ertl's highly efficient and picture-perfect The Crack is a psychologically underpinned mid-length horror miniature that transforms into a utopia as casual as it is original as it is gently disturbing, and is ultimately also a powerful plea for the autonomy of older people.