Forum of Independents - Competition 2003 / Ravioli / Austria 2003
A truly independent, low-budget bitter-sweet comedy from Austria about a real loser: Heinz Hoschek, who loses his job, his wife and his house and finally becomes a swimming pool attendant.
Heinz Hoschek, who formerly worked as a branch manager of a bank, has lost his job and his marriage has failed. He loses his house and returns to the unoccupied apartment of his parents. His mother has died, his father lives in a nursing home. In his loneliness Heinz recalls days long past: holidays by the sea, birthday parties, his school and university days, his engagement… Through his alcohol and medication, he constantly loses the ability to distinguish between reality and fantasy. He receives various visitors, some real, some unreal. Finally he tries to pull himself together and find a new job: Heinz Hoschek becomes a swimming pool attendant… A truly independent, low-budget, bitter-sweet comedy from Austria.
70 min / Color, 35 mm
Director Peter Payer
/ Screenplay Alfred Dorfer
/ Dir. of Photography Thomas Prodinger
/ Music Lothar Scherpe, Peter Hermann
/ Editor Cordula Werner
/ Producer Peter Payer, Alfred Dorfer
/ Production Arge Heimat
/ Cast Alfred Dorfer, Gertraud Jesserer, Branko Samarovski
/ Contact Austrian Films
www: www.ravioli-derfilm.at
Peter Payer (b. 1964, Wien) began working in TV in 1997. He directed his first feature film for cinema, Untersuchung an Mädeln, in 1998/99. Ravioli is his second feature.
Austrian Films
Stiftgasse 6, 1070, Vienna
Austria
Phone: +43 152 633 23
E-mail: [email protected]
Peter Payer
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