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Nikolaus Geyrhalter
AT 2015 186'
⚬ Human Interest
An observation of what happens to a few manual laborers over a period of 10 years. A film about the process of becoming unemployed, told from the perspective of people who know. It represents a memorial to industrial sectors in the process of dying out in Europe.
Director | Nikolaus Geyrhalter |
Producers | Michael Kitzberger, Markus Glaser, Wolfgang Widerhofer, Nikolaus Geyrhalter |
Production Company | Nikolaus Geyrhalter Filmproduktion |
Cinematography | Nikolaus Geyrhalter |
Editor | Wolfgang Widerhofer |
Sound | Peter Kutin |
Best Film, Human Rights Competition | BAFICI 2015 |
Silver Eye Award, Feature-length documentary category | East Silver Market 2015 |
3sat Dokumentarfilmpreis | Duisburger Filmwoche 2015 |
Berlinale 2015 |
IDFA 2015 |
Eurodok Oslo 2015 |
BAFICI 2015 |
Indie Lisboa 2015 |
Riviera Maya FF 2015 |
DocAviv 2015 |
Planet+ Doc FF 2015 |
Milano FF 2015 |
DocLisboa 2015 |
Sevilla Festival de Cine 2015 |
| Runtime | 188' |
| Spoken Languages | German |
| Production Countries | Austria |
Nikolaus Geyrhalter was born in Vienna, Austria in 1972. Twenty-two years later he formed his own production company: Nikolaus Geyrhalter Filmproduktion. He made his first film, EISENERZ, in 1992. Two years later, he shot his first documentary, WASHED ASHORE (1994) it is telling a story about the river Danube and often strange idiosyncrasies of the people who live along its banks. Geyrhalter’s static-camera, well-paced observational films tackle their subjects head-on, whether it’s exploring the terrain in Chernobyl, Ukraine (PRIPYAT - 1998), tracing the route of the Dakar Rally (7915 KM - 2008), or investigating the production of processed foods (OUR DAILY BREAD - 2005). In 2003 he received Austrian State Award for Film Art and in 2008 his film OUR DAILY BREAD won the Grimme Prize.
