Chucks a film by Sabine Hiebler and Gerhard Ertl | FFM 39E
Montréal le 30 Août 2015 – Live. Love. Dance. Now! The team behind « Coming of Age (Anfang 80) », Montreal 2012 Festival Audience Award Winner (and best actor Award), returns to the Montreal with a new comedy having its world Premiere in competition . A film by Sabine Hiebler and Gerhard Ertl. Montreal World Film Festival in Competition screenings Cinéma Impérial Wednesday, September 2nd at 12 pm !
After the novel by Cornelia Travnicek CHUCKS, tells the featherlight story of Mae’s growing up between life and death. Full of humor, at times rebelliously loud, then extremely tender – completely in the spirit of the literary version it is based on, the successful novel by Cornelia Travnicek about which Clemens J. Setz once wrote: “If I were to get stuck in a lift with a character of contemporary literature, I would want it to be Mae. I don’t know whether I would come out safe and sound, but it would be worth it.
Ever since they were students at the University of Art and Industrial Design in Linz, Sabine Hiebler and Gerhard Ertl have worked together. In the early stages of their artistic cooperation they produced and staged prize-winning experimental films which were shown around the world (e.g. the New York Film Festival, Berlin Film Festival, MOMA Museum of Modern Art, New York).
Their artistic endeavours in the realms of photography, visual arts and video have been presented in numerous exhibitions (Ars Electronica, Neuen Galerie Graz, Vienna Museum of Art History, Biennale de l´image Paris) Sabine Hiebler and Gerhard Ertl’s first feature film was NOGO – an episode film with Jürgen Vogel, Michael Ostrowski in his first film role, Jasmin Tabatabai, Meret Becker, Oliver Korittke and Mavie Hörbiger.
The film had its international premiere in Rotterdam and at the Max Ophüls Festival in Saarbrücken, was invited to festivals around the world and received numerous awards including the Variety Critics’ Choice and the Diagonale Award for Innovative Production.
This was followed by another feature film which won numerous awards, “Coming of Age / Anfang 80”, with Christine Ostermayer and Karl Merkatz in the leading roles. Both the film and the actors were awarded in Austria and around the world (including the Best Foreign Film Santa Barbara, Best Actor and Audience Prize World Film Festival Montreal, Best Narrative Film Wisconsin).
SYNOPSIS
Live. Love. Dance. Now! Mae (Anna Posch) roams the streets of Vienna as a punk in her dead brother’s Converse shoes. She lives on canned beer, sprays walls, tries her hand at poetry slams. She’s not interested in bourgeois life but in stronger experiences. When she is sent to an AIDS center to work off a punishment, she meets and falls in love with Paul (Markus Subramaniam).
CHUCKS, the new film by Sabine Hiebler and Gerhard Ertl (“Coming of Age / Anfang 80”), tells the featherlight story of growing up between life and death. Full of humor, at times rebelliously loud, then extremely tender – completely in the spirit of the literary version it is based on, the successful novel by Cornelia Travnicek about which Clemens J. Setz once wrote: “If I were to get stuck in a lift with a character of contemporary literature, I would want it to be Mae. I don’t know whether I would come out safe and sound, but it would be worth it.”
CREDITS
Directed by: Sabine Hiebler, Gerhard Ertl / Screenplay: Sabine Hiebler, Gerhard Ertl after the novel by Cornelia Travnicek (published by DVA Verlag ein Unternehmen der Gruppe Random House GmbH, München) Starring: Anna Posch, Markus Subramaniam, Thomas Schubert, Stefanie Reinsperger, Susi Stach, Lola Khittl, David Süss, Karl Fischer, Gerald Votava, Barbara Gassner, Alice Schneider, Paul Matic DOP: Wolfgang Thaler / Editing: Roland Stöttinger / Production design: Nikolai Ritter Costume: Monika Buttinger / Make up: Daniela Langauer / Casting: Judith Limberger and Eva Roth Sound: Hjalti Bager-Jonathansson, Sound re-recording mixer: Ingo Pusswald Music: Soap&Skin, Hella Comet, MOnsterheart, Julian & der Fux, Propella, Chrome, Bilderbuch, Clara Luzia, APPARAT, Matthew Herbert Co-producer: Sabine Hiebler und Gerhard Ertl, Producer: Danny Krausz und Kurt Stocker, DOR FILM – www.dor-film.com Produced with the support of : Austrian Film Institute, Film Fund Vienna, FISA (Location Austria), ORF Film/Television Agreement German (English or French subtitles), 93 min., colour, DCP 2K, 5.1. Surround Mix.
