- Director: Markus Schleinzer
- Screenplay: Markus Schleinzer
- Cinematography: Gerald Kerkletz
- Editing: Wolfgang Widerhofer
- Cast: Michael Fuith, Christine Kain, Ursula Strauss, Viktor Tremmel, Gisela Salcher
- Producer: Michael Kitzberger, Markus Glaser, Wolfgang Widerhofer, Nikolaus Geyrhalter
- Production: NGF - Nikolaus Geyrhalter Filmproduktion
- Distributor: Filmcoopi
- Contact: Wolfgang Blösche,
- Festivals: Festival de Cannes, Max Ophüls Preis Filmfestival, Diagonale, Viennale
Markus Schleinzer
born in Vienna in 1971, actor in Austrian and German Film- and TV productions. Casting director of more than 60 film and TV productions. Worked as actor and director for theater plays. In 2011 he realised as director and script writer his first feature film Michael which made it in Cannes competition and won the Max-Ophüls-Award. Currently working on his second feature film Angelo.
Filmography (Selection)
Actor:
2015 Winwin
2014 Über ich und Du
2010 Der Räuber
Casting Director:
2009 Das weiße Band
2007 Die Fälscher
Director:
2011 Michael
German with English Subtitles
Automatic blinds, noise protection on the cellar door and at the foot of the stairs a door with a steel waler. Michael is a call center agent at an insurance company, drives a middle-class car and gives away Harry Potter V to his nephew for Christmas. Michael also has a little boy, he lives in the cellar. Behind the steel waler there is a children’s room with books, puzzles, coloured pencils, there is even a kitchen, a proper little world. Sometimes the boy can go upstairs. Sometimes Michael goes down the stairs and switches the light off before ...
Markus Schleinzer’s extraordinarily stringent debut feature narrates about pedophelia from the offender’s perspective. It leaves space to the spectators, to discover the horror themselves, which is glued very precicely to the most banal things and processes.
Q&A with Markus Schleinzer after the film.