Follow-up to Ulrich Seidl‘s previous film, Rimini. It focuses on Richie Bravo’s brother, Ewald. Ewald (Georg Friedrich) moved to Romania years ago. Now in his 40s, he seeks a fresh start. Leaving his girlfriend, he moves to the hinterland. With…
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Silt: Ulrich Seidl
Rimini
Richie Bravo, once upon a time a successful pop star, chases after his faded fame in wintry Rimini. Trapped between permanent intoxication and concerts for busloads of tourists, his world starts to collapse when his adult daughter breaks into his…
Im Keller
A documentary that reveals what its subjects do in their respective basements. Maverick director Seidl delves into yet another exploration of the dark underside of the human psyche with a look at Austrian basements fitted out as private domains for…
Models
Four models share their life experience. Controversial documentary filmmaker Ulrich Seidl follows the sex lives and careers of a trio of ambitious models. Vivian, who will do anything, anything, to be a magazine covergirl, has a boyfriend and a bevy…
Paradies: Hoffnung
The final installment in Ulrich Seidl‘s Paradise trilogy, ‘Paradise: Hope’ tells the story of overweight thirteen-year-old Melanie and her first love. While her mother travels to Kenya (‘Paradise: Love‘) and her aunt does missionary work (‘Paradise: Faith‘), Melanie spends her…
Paradies: Liebe
On Kenya’s beaches they are known as “sugar mamas”: European women who seek out African boys selling love to earn a living. Teresa, a 50-year-old Austrian woman, travels to this vacation paradise. “PARADISE: Love” tells of older women and young…
Paradies: Glaube
A single woman in her 50’s devotes her vacations to doing Catholic missionary work in Vienna, descending into violent self-punishment as part of her faith. The second film of Ulrich Seidl’s Paradise trilogy follows Anna Maria, the fanatically religious self-flagellating…
Import/Export
A nurse from the Ukraine searches for a better life in the West, while an unemployed security guard from Austria heads East for the same reason. Two individual fates move in opposite directions. Olga, a nurse from the Ukraine, abandons…
Hundstage
In a suburb of Vienna during some hot summer days: A teacher who is in bondage to a sleazy pimp, a very importunate hitchhiker, a private detective on the run for some car vandals, a couple with a serious marriage…