11° FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE CINEMA GIOVANI
Feature Film Competition 1993
Halbe Welt
by Florian Flicker
Country: Austria
Year: 1993
Duration: 83'
The deadly rays of the sun make living during the day impossible. People are only able to become active during the night; in the day they sleep in darkened rooms and seek refuge from the sun. In the city of the halfworld, a culture develops from different languages, different forms of life and survival techniques. Katz prowls the streets selling old picture postcards that depict a natural environment destroyed a long time ago. Day after day Herzog climbs the roof of his house with a stopwatch and tries to bear the sunrise.
The "Whites", who own the monopoly on the past, produce electronical illusions for an invisible élite by means of ancient images of nature.
The "Blacks" seize hold of their machines and begin to fiddle with them.
Sunny's day bar is the place where the inhabitants of the halfworld meet.
Biography
film director
Florian Flicker
Florian Flicker (Salzburg, 1965) in 1989 founded the group Pension Export and developed numerous audiovisual projects where cinema, multimedia, music, video installations, and live performances were combined. These include Die Frühlingsrolle (1990, live performance with film and music), and Filmdisco and Zak (installations, 1989-96). His film Halbe Welt received various prizes: the special jury prize for the best first film at the Fantastica Festival in Gerardmer, France; the second prize at the Filmkunst Festival in Schwerin, Germany; and the Coup de Cœur at Valenciennes. The screenplay for Suzie Washington won the Carl Mayer Screenplay prize.
FILMOGRAFIA
Halbe Welt (1993), Attwengerfilm (doc., 1995), Suzie Washington (1998).
Declaration
film director
"Aside from the action and special effect scenes, the shots were an opportunity to make all kinds of experiments. We got the optical effect of mortal solar rays thanks to the use of a new method of making copies. Thus the shooting was changed both into research and into a voyage into the future. What was originally a documentary about a fictive situation became a science fiction film about the present. Half a world is over." (Florian Flicker)
Cast
& Credits
Director: Florian Flicker.
Screenplay: Florian Flicker, Michael Sturminger.
Director of photography: Jerzy Palacz.
Art director: Renate Martin, Andreas Donhauser.
Montaggio e suono: Bernhard Weirather.
Music: Andreas Haller.
Cast and characters: Rainer Egger (Herzog), Dani Levy (Katz), Maria Schrader (Sunny), Mercedes Echerer (Sina), Goran Rebic (Repro), Proschat Madani (Nora), Michael Kreihsl (Max), Cornelia Lippert (Chris), Allen Browne (Erik), Clemens Galen (Rieger), Karl Markovics (taxista).
Director of Production: Helmut Grasser.
Produzione e vendita all'estero: Allegro Filmproduction Ges.m.b.H., A1030 Vienna, Krummgasse 1A/9, tel. +4317125036, fax +4317127799.
Screenplay: Florian Flicker, Michael Sturminger.
Director of photography: Jerzy Palacz.
Art director: Renate Martin, Andreas Donhauser.
Montaggio e suono: Bernhard Weirather.
Music: Andreas Haller.
Cast and characters: Rainer Egger (Herzog), Dani Levy (Katz), Maria Schrader (Sunny), Mercedes Echerer (Sina), Goran Rebic (Repro), Proschat Madani (Nora), Michael Kreihsl (Max), Cornelia Lippert (Chris), Allen Browne (Erik), Clemens Galen (Rieger), Karl Markovics (taxista).
Director of Production: Helmut Grasser.
Produzione e vendita all'estero: Allegro Filmproduction Ges.m.b.H., A1030 Vienna, Krummgasse 1A/9, tel. +4317125036, fax +4317127799.
