Aufzeichnungen aus der Unterwelt

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Aufzeichnungen aus der Unterwelt

Notes From the Underworld

Tizza Covi, Rainer Frimmel

Rainer Frimmel

There is unrest in the milieu of the Viennese underworld of the 1960s. In a controversial trial the singer Kurt Girk and his legendary friend Alois have to pay for their proximity to the illegal card game "Stoss" with long prison sentences. The charismatic protagonists tell us about this time from a perspective never shown before. A love letter to a past Vienna that is also a social portrait of post-war Austria.

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Technical Data
Running time:	115
Format:	Super-16mm, digital
Screen ratio:	1:1.66
Language spoken:	German
Production year:	2020

Credits
Director(s):	Tizza Covi, Rainer Frimmel, Rainer Frimmel
Writer(s):	Rainer Frimmel
Cinematography:	Rainer Frimmel
Editing:	Tizza Covi
Key cast:	Kurt Girk, Alois Schmutzer
Producers:	Tizza Covi, Rainer Frimmel
Premiere:	February 23, 2020 Berlin (Panorama)
Awards (selection):	Berlinale Documentary Award Special Mention (Berlin), Special Jury Award of the Albar Competition (Gijon), Best Austrian Documentary Film + Kodak Analogue Film Prize (Graz/Diagonale), Austrian Film Award: Best Documentary Film

Production company

Vento Film

Leitermayergasse 33/20

1180 Vienna

tel:+43 1 406 03 92

contact@ventofilm.com

www.ventofilm.com

DIRECTOR

Tizza Covi, Rainer Frimmel

DIRECTOR

Rainer Frimmel

INTERVIEW

«The question of truth»

If Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel don't travel for their film project, they plunge beneath the surface of their city. A fascination with the underlying melancholic aspects of Vienna songs leads them to one of its most outstanding interpreters. Kurt Girk’s intriguing account of his life is interwoven in NOTES FROM THE UNDERWORLD with the city's gangster milieu of the late 1960s in the shape of its legendary protagonist Alois Schmutzer; the two men are bound by a lifelong friendship as well as a serious, harrowing travesty of justice.