Documentary Films - Competition 2005 / Neue Welt / Austria 2005
This nostalgic road movie through the territories of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire is built upon the juxtaposition of archive footage and photographs with contemporary shots of the same places; news read from period local press serves as the narration.
A nostalgic road movie that wanders from country to country, town to town, from old times to new, through the greater part of central Europe, territory that for nearly four hundred years boasted the name Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. Documentarist Paul Rosdy set out on a trip from Sarajevo to Vienna and on to Romania, from Trieste to the Bay of Kotor, across the Hungarian puszta and on to Ukraine. Using music, stories, anecdotes and legends, travel guides and newspaper clippings from the turn of the 20th century, Rosdy has created a fascinating journey through time built upon the juxtaposition of archive footage and photographs with contemporary shots of the same places. Great historical moments are overshadowed by ordinary life, everyday events and simple pleasures, like the singing of Gipsy musicians in Hungary or forest workers taking their meals together in Romania’s snow covered Carpathian mountains.
103 min / Color, 35 mm
World premiere
Director Paul Rosdy
/ Screenplay Paul Rosdy
/ Dir. of Photography Robert Winkler
/ Editor Paul Rosdy
/ Producer Paul Rosdy
/ Production Rosdy Film KEG
/ Contact Rosdy Film KEG
www: www.rosdyfilm.com
Paul Rosdy (Vienna) has been involved exclusively in film since 1990, though before that he worked at other jobs, including a stint as a tour guide. He studied filmmaking in Vancouver, Canada and then produced short documentaries and educational programs in Austria, Canada and the United States. In 1994 he and Joan Grossman founded Pinball Films, under whose auspices they shot the feature-length documentary The Port of Last Resort, which focuses on the little-known story of 20,000 European Jews who fled Nazism for Shanghai. Rosdy began working on New World in 1999. Filmography: You Don’t Look for Street Signs When You’re in a Jungle (1991), Release Day (1992), Matzo Balls (1994), The Port of Last Resort (1998), New World (2005).
Rosdy Film KEG
Lustkandlgasse 51/4-5, A-1090, Vienna
Austria
Phone: +43 1 319 81 42
Fax: +43 1 319 81 42
E-mail: [email protected]
Anne Laurent-Delage
Film Institution Rep.
Paul Rosdy
Film Director
Robert Winkler
Director of Photography
Wolfram Wuinovic
Director of Photography
Laszlo Bakos
Producer
Vitali Bodnar
Film Crew
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