1,330,397 visitors! So many looked up to and including 20 Austrians December 2009 Austria's films. As much as has ever been since the beginning of counting the beginning of the 80s and probably as much as since the 50s and 60s any more than the last area of the entertainment film industry around Sissi kitsch and Peter Alexander Schlager finish. What could have been the record year 2008 (970.000 visitors) not thought possible proved true, in 2009. Suddenly raised to the last two years from the long-term average. The Austrian film is back in!
Austrian Films - annually produced about 30 of them, half of which documentation - rising annually for about two to three per cent share of the admissions in Austria. That was in this decade, at least through 2007, between 250,000 (2003) and 650,000 (2002) people - a total of 15 and 19 million tickets sold. Austria could therefore boast increasingly since 1999 ( northern edge , Barbara Albert) with the international festival success, and more often at the most prestigious festivals in the world - the country's film audience seemed hardly to touch this.
Then came 2008: The Counterfeiters won the Oscar in Los Angeles and thus the public in the exercise only "really important" film award. And that took care of Mr and Mrs Austria but then: modest 34,000 visitors had seen the film in 2007 - but after the Oscar nomination and especially after the Oscar ceremony of the film was actually already spilled over Austria again widespread in the cinemas, so this value is approximately six-fold to 190,000. So much for the world's most popular event of the Austrian film of 2008.
flowering of commercial film production?
The real sensation of the film industry perspective, 2008 was however different: 970 000 visitors and visitors stormed Austria cinemas to see Austrian films - as much as probably since the last foothills of the home, music, kitsch and costume film in the 50s years-not (there a real movie theater statistics, only since the early 80s, and after the end of the last Sissi and Peter Alexander movies in the '50s and early '60s, which marked the end of a film era that no longer mattered in the audience, was the Austrian film about 20 years in a deep sleep).
blame for the unusually strong growth in visitor numbers to the Austrian film was (of course) is not the internationally successful Austrian art film. Rather it was due to an extraordinary concentration of commercial, directed at a broad audience productions like Real Vienna (205 000 visitors in the waning 2008), Falco - Damn we're still alive! to find (155,000) and also just The Counterfeiters (156,000 visitors in 2008), also needed when this film first Academy Award for his audience. With Let's Make Money (also 155,000 visitors) was after all a documentary a wide audience - even though this production Wagenhofer not came up from the 200,000 visitors We Feed the World . Also north wall (86,000) took place as an "action-documentary" (extreme mountain climbing), many visitors and In 3 days you're dead 2 , which started shortly after Christmas, 2008 also reached 34,000 visitors. By comparison, the 2009 for the Oscar-nominated film Götz Spielmann, Revanche , came out in 2008 not more than 17,500 visitors also (and 2009 - even Oscar nomination or not - not to exceed a total of 33,000).
division of responsibilities among the producers?
2008, there were so exceptional situation that one half of the Austrian film industry will travel with their films around the world from festival to festival and collected prizes for prizes, while the other half in Austria (and Germany) films for the mass produced , the timid of this, but it was also assumed (with 200,000 visitors can not (game) film and also fund a Roland Düringer does not guarantee box office success, as showed why with its 6,000 visitors). But the Austrian film production is really in two halves - a commercially-oriented and artistically oriented - divided? Well, I hope that there is no sharp boundary. But a development actually speaks for this assumption: In April 2006, split the Association of Austrian Film Producers - until then the common interest group of virtually all relevant film production companies in Austria.
the dispute over a joint position on questions of the future promote the film and film policy in Austria came from the Austria's largest film companies of the association and constituted themselves as Film Austria new. These were Allegro Film, Dor Film, epo-film, MR Film, Team movie, Wega Film and Satel Film - those last 20 to 30 years of existing, well-anchored in the Austrian film industry companies since its inception for the majority of the crowd-pulling productions in Austria were and are responsible. You argue for a more independent from the government film-making in Austria, while the remaining 50 medium, small and micro-enterprises without public funding could hardly exist to justify their existence but also the fact that it covers the majority of the film awards, the Austria cashed in particular since 1999, are responsible. The work of art, both as a blockbuster and produce artistic works of merit seems, is just the Wega film to succeed, who accompanied about Michael Haneke's film-making from the beginning.
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The improbable happened: 2009 even more successful
2008 was the one to succeed as a sequel that would have been expected at this level (both in terms of awards as well as visitors). Second, it was also successful, as that 2009 would revert to 2007 levels can. That this would be visitors in terms already difficult, took care of the fact that Real Vienna and In 3 Days was dead just before New Year in the cinemas, and roughly half of its visitors (totaling over 200,000) in the first weeks of the new year recorded. Fair and festival from the beginning was a successful year expected the list of awards and nominations was to give it back very long.
also launched in late October 2008 Lets Make Money 2009 or 40 000 brought Visitors. This was followed by the highlights of the year, The Bone Man (267,000 visitors) and Hexe Lilli (177,000 visitors) - the latter while a majority-German production, but for the Austrian Film Institute (ÖFI) counts each film with Austrian participation is made. Same is true for Desert Flower, which is recorded as a majority German-French production with Austrian participation with 177,000 visitors in the Austrian statistics. The previous year's value would be alone with these films almost reached already. The proverbial fat herb made but one - for Austrian conditions - Armada at moderately successful productions:
- half my life (26,000)
- Contact High (25,000)
- Plastic Planet (76,000)
- The White Ribbon (61,000)
- The case of Lemming (74,000)
- Hogi's Family (25,000)
- Mount St. Elias (52,000)
-> adds up to about 340,000 visitors
Who in this list A moment of freedom and The Lord's game - two films that were praised by critics - missing: former reached only 14,000, the latter so far (the film was recently to) 6,000 visitors. The remaining about 15 productions of 2009, mainly 1000-5000 visitors.
all adds up to and including 20 the Dezember 2009 1.330.397 admissions in Austria, which accounts for films with Austrian participation. Subtracting the minimum production (mainly non-Austrian productions), which are anyway only five films ( The Lord's game , Little Robbers , The Desert Flower , Tortuga and Hexe Lilli ) still remain 962 493 attendees . The White Ribbon that of Germany for Oscar was filed, I have not been deducted. While I, the exact allocation of production (tasks, cost, contractual, etc.) is not known, but if you look at the production team of the film is striking that the main team of the Wega Film (probably because, with Haneke for many years well-recorded) is sitting at the levers of production. Conversely, it maintains, however, undoubtedly Lilly the Witch and The father game, where up is due to the writers and directors and Ruzowitzky Glawogger little Austrian work in the game, still less is it in the desert flower the case.
What is happening?
The question remains whether the level again in 2010 to maintain or even can be further expanded. The conditions, as far as one can say that today already are, at least not bad. Although there are no defectors, so movies that start to the year and as last year 200,000 visitors to the new year take over - but it would be reached on 2009 with 1.1 million visitors would still have been a record year.
A look at the production lists can be seen in any case much potential: with Tobias Moretti and Moritz Bleibtreu (just as a Greek restaurant owner in the cinema - next year as Goebbels!) Is Jud Suss again in the cinema - denazified this time probably in a release.
For lovers of shallow entertainment with audience identification figures and lovers must have fear and trembling (describes very well what I read in the brief information about the film) comes to see. Reinhard Schwabenitzky, guarantee for 150,000 + admissions reports, with Elfi Eschke back in theaters.
candidate for the obligatory anti-capitalism documentary of the year may be Forgotten Space , if the movie, the beginning of October 2010 is to be completed later this year to hit theaters. In the footsteps of revenge Not least because the main character, could 2010 possibly connect each his . Although her subject from radically different, could the quality of the production and mood ago but certainly can expect parallels. Elisabeth Scharang the director, film produced Epo. will not fail to see is also Mein Kampf , an Austria-German-Swiss co-production about the young Hitler postcard artist and his Jewish supporter in 1910 in Vienna. The quasi-successor to The Counterfeiters ?
In the category of comedy of errors, and thus a candidate for outstanding Visitor numbers, you can plug The Unintentional abduction of women Elfriede Ott . As the combination of Elfriede Ott, are in 3 days dead director Andreas Prochaska, and young, from weird comes to indecent comedies ( slugs , Contact High ) known actors such as Michael Ostrowski of the public is of course questionable.
evil crown headlines can guess again in the basement. Ulrich Seidl, with dog days as a "traitor" presumably crown widely known, will outline the relationship with this documentation the Austrians to their basements . How is he probably came up with this idea? However, no
Blockbuster is expected to Empire Me - I am the state! be a poet of Paul. But all the more a recommendation for lovers of the quirky and amusing, like me.
