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Berlinale 2019: Ulrich Seidl produced DIE KINDER DER TOTEN to celebrate world premiere
DIE KINDER DER TOTEN, an Ulrich Seidl Produced Adaptation of Elfriede Jelinek’s Eponymous Novel, Will Celebrate Its World Premiere at the Berlinale (Forum)
Directors Kelly Copper and Pavol Liska (Nature Theater of Oklahoma) will attend the festival and are available for interviews
On February 8, DIE KINDER DER TOTEN will celebrate its world premiere in the Forum section of the 69th edition of the Berlin International Film Festival. The film and performance collective Nature Theater of Oklahoma (Kelly Copper and Pavol Liska) has realised a free-wheeling cinematic adaptation of Elfriede Jelinek’s monumental ghost story “Die Kinder der Toten”, shot on location in Austria at the book’s original sites around the area where the Nobel Prize winning author spent her childhood.
Kelly Copper and Pavol Liska, as well as creative consultant and producer Claus Philipp, will be in Berlin from February 7 to 11 and are available for interviews during that time. |
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Film still: © Ulrich Seidl Filmproduktion |
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Film still: © Ulrich Seidl Filmproduktion |
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Synopse
A SUPER 8 holiday film from Austria’s Upper Styria region gradually morphs into a document of the resurrection of “undead” phantoms: a secretary and daughter-in-perpetuity finds herself confronted with a malicious doppelgänger and manages to drive her supermom insane. A jaded forest ranger is pursued by his sons, who committed suicide years ago. A Nazi widow turns an old factory into her own CINEMA 666, in which viewers are free to mourn Austria’s past without restraint. Initially triggered by a bus accident in the mountains, the victims of Austrian and European history come back to haunt the nation as zombies. As in Jelinek’s novel, the screen adaptation unfolds into an eerie and at times highly comical challenge. The question of the (im)possibility of an adequate processing of accumulated guilt permeates all those terrains – nature, culture, society, history – that still continue to provide a basis for national identity in the present.
Produced by Ulrich Seidl Filmproduktion in co-operation with the contemporary arts festival steirischer herbst 2017, the cinematic adaptation THE CHILDREN OF THE DEAD depicts a grim homeland scenario full of black humour. The project, which is the product of three years of preparation, was recently honoured with the Nestroy Award (in the Special Prize category).
NATURE THEATER OF OKLAHOMA
KELLY COPPER / PAVOL LISKA
The Nature Theater of Oklahoma – named after a chapter of Franz Kafka’s unfinished novel “Amerika” – was founded in 2006 by Kelly Copper and Pavol Liska, who began collaborating in 1997. The members of the New York based performance group have committed themselves to an approach described as “making the work they don’t know how to make”, by pursuing new connections between opera, dance and theatre in combination with pop culture and humour. |
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Berlinale screenings DIE KINDER DER TOTEN:
Thursday, 7 Feb // 11:30 // CinemaxX 6 (Press & Industry)
Friday, 8 Feb // 19:00 // Delphi (world premiere)
Saturday, 9 Feb // 19:30 // Colosseum 1
Sunday, 10 Feb // 22:00 // CinemaxX 4 |
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DIE KINDER DER TOTEN
A film by Nature Theater of Oklahoma
Directed by Kelly Copper and Pavol Liska
Based on the novel of the same name by Elfriede Jelinek
(AT, 2019, DCP, 92 min.)
Direction, cinematography & screenplay: Kelly Copper, Pavol Liska
Creative consultant: Claus Philipp
Editing: Kelly Copper, Michael Palm
Music: Wolfgang Mitterer
Sound: David Almeida-Ribeiro
Cast: Andrea Maier, Greta Kostka, Klaus Unterrieder, Tamara Pregernigg, Lukas
Eigl, Julia Zangger, Georg Beyer, Jasmin Karami, Ditz Fejer, Hans Windhaber, Eugen Gross, Heidi Gaidoschik u.v.a.
Production direction: Teresa-Saija Wieser
Production assistance: Maria Macic, Johannes Bültermann
Realisation direction: Georg Aschauer, Daniela Trauner
Producers: Claus Philipp, Georg Aschauer
Producer: Ulrich Seidl
Production: Ulrich Seidl Filmproduktion
In co-operation with: steirischer herbst 2017
Distribution (Austria): Stadtkino Filmverleih (release: 5 April 2019)
With support from: Österreichisches Filminstitut, Land Steiermark, Cine ART Steiermark.
In co-operation with: ORF Film/Fernseh-Abkommen |
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PRESS RELEASE
4 February 2019 |
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