The Montreal World Film Festival

CHUCKS - 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 drama/comedy having its world Premiere in competition.

A film by Sabine Hiebler and Gerhard Ertl

After the novel by Cornelia Travnicek

CHUCKS, the new film by Sabine Hiebler and Gerhard Ertl (“Coming of Age / Anfang 80” – Public Award – Most Popular Film in Montreal 2012)), 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

Montreal World Film Festival in Competition screenings

Cinéma Impérial                   Sunday,             August 30th       at 2   pm

Cinéma Impérial                   Wednesday,      September 2nd           at 12 pm

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.”