Production Design
The story of Empress Elisabeth of Austria told from the point of view of her lady-in-waiting, Irma Sztáray. Far from the kitschy “Sissi” cliché, she portrays a woman who, for years without her husband, surrounded only by women, ventured on journeys throughout Europe, mastered six languages, practiced high-performance sports and did not fit at all into the tight corset of the Viennese court.
Production Design
En 1906, una joven madre, Hanna, no quiere más que liberarse de su papel burgués y sus limitaciones sociales. Huye al Monte Verità, donde, rodeada de la naturaleza idílica del cantón del Tesino y dedicándose en cuerpo y alma y con valentía al arte, se enfrenta a una dolorosa decisión. ¿Podrá volver con su familia sin renunciar a sí misma?
Production Design
Alice, una madre soltera que vive dedicada más a su trabajo como ingeniera genética que a Joe, su hijo adolescente, desarrolla una nueva variedad de flor que supuestamente tiene la capacidad de hacer feliz a su dueño gracias a sus especiales propiedades químicas.
Production Design
Viena 1945. Christine una niña acostumbrada a la guerra se tiene que hospedar junto a su familia en una acomodada casa a las afueras de Viena. Ahora tienen un techo donde cobijarse pero nada más. La gente del pueblo espera la llegada de los rusos. Todos tienen miedo, Chirstine no.
Production Design
According to an African fairy tale, every child receives a song from their parents that they carry with them throughout their lives. Richard, an orphaned Tanzanian immigrant, has never had his own song. How he got one before his unexpected death and the significant, though unintended, roles played by the dark-tourism entrepreneur Drakuhl, the gray-haired hair model Barney and the heavy-drinking music teacher Kiesel won't be revealed here. Merely that the song Dead Man Play becomes an international hit.
Casting
According to an African fairy tale, every child receives a song from their parents that they carry with them throughout their lives. Richard, an orphaned Tanzanian immigrant, has never had his own song. How he got one before his unexpected death and the significant, though unintended, roles played by the dark-tourism entrepreneur Drakuhl, the gray-haired hair model Barney and the heavy-drinking music teacher Kiesel won't be revealed here. Merely that the song Dead Man Play becomes an international hit.
Production Design
The film tells different stories in a kind of parallel Germany about love, affection and hatred.
Production Design
Christine (Sylvie Testud) es una mujer discapacitada que lleva casi toda la vida en una silla de ruedas. Para salir de su aislamiento, viaja a Lourdes, legendario lugar de peregrinaje en los Pirineos, buscando consuelo o quizá de un milagro. Una mañana se despierta y está curada. Parece un milagro. El jefe del grupo de peregrinos, un apuesto voluntario de la Orden de Malta, empieza a interesarse por ella. Por lo demás, la curación provoca en los demás tanto envidia como admiración. (FILMAFFINITY)
Production Design
Never at the sea.
Costume Design
Never at the sea.
Production Design
Retrato del artista austríaco Gustav Klimt, cuyos suntuosos y eróticos cuadros marcaron el estilo Art Nouveau de finales del siglo XIX y principios del XX.
Production Design
Una urbanización de las afueras de una gran ciudad, ordinaria, omnipresente… omplejos de apartamentos de gran altura, montones de hormigón, parcelas escasas de verde superficial. Entradas garabateadas con graffiti, porteros automáticos, miles de ventanas anónimas… De entra esta coexistencia uniforme surgen tres parejas cuyas vidas se cruzan en el transcurso de tres días, con consecuencias imprevisibles.
Art Direction
Thomas, a student drop-out, keeps his head above water with a life of petty crime. Passing himself off once again as a ticket inspector on a tram to extract money from fare-dodgers, he is confronted by Erich, a genuine inspector, or so it seems...
However, Erich won his inspector's identity badge at cards. The two begin to meet regularly. Thomas doesn't realise until too late that he is to play a major role in Erich's long-planned coup.
The well thought out plan succeeds. Unfortunately, however, Erich has failed to consider how he can convert his booty - a lorry load of valuable carpets - into hard cash.
Their problems are just beginning...
Art Direction
Jojo, a bicycle messenger prone to daydreaming, gets a job offer from a stranger that begins to blur the lines between fantasy and reality. When the route becomes a regular assignment, Jojo finds romance and deadly enemies along the way.
Art Direction
Herbert lives a rather simple life, left to his own devices. He works as a projectionist in a shabby Viennese movie theater and lives alone with his red nameless cat in the free caretaker's apartment of a somewhat run-down apartment building. Now and then he visits his mother in a nursing home, meets with an old friend of his father, or comes to meetings of a savings club. Saving money is pretty much the center of his life because he has a dream. He wants to emigrate to the U.S. to buy his own movie theater and to reunite with his long-lost father. But when Rita, a young student, moves into the apartment building things in his life are changed completely.
Art Direction
An unusual love story between a farmer from a small village and a 25-year-old recently released prisoner from Vienna. First he wins the acceptance and sympathy of the villagers before his past catches up with him.
Art Direction
A young journalist researches the life of his father which leads him to path of contradictions until he uncovers a gruelling truth.
Costume Design
Thomas Larcher has adapted Yasushi Inoue’s best-seller The Hunting Gun for his first opera, with a libretto by Austrian Book Prize winner Friederike Gösweiner. Austrian actor and film director Karl Markovics made his debut as stage director for an opera. The story tells of three women, who speak in three letters addressed to the same man, a hunter – his wife, his lover and his lover’s daughter. As the women react to the revelation of illicit love, the hunter’s life is laid bare.
Set Designer
Thomas Larcher has adapted Yasushi Inoue’s best-seller The Hunting Gun for his first opera, with a libretto by Austrian Book Prize winner Friederike Gösweiner. Austrian actor and film director Karl Markovics made his debut as stage director for an opera. The story tells of three women, who speak in three letters addressed to the same man, a hunter – his wife, his lover and his lover’s daughter. As the women react to the revelation of illicit love, the hunter’s life is laid bare.
