Ulrich Maria Seidl (born 24 November 1952) is an Austrian film director , writer and producer. Among other awards, his film Dog Days won the Grand Jury Prize at Venice in 2001.
16-692: Import/Export is an Austrian drama film by the director Ulrich Seidl from 2007. It was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival and won the Grand Prix - Golden Apricot reward at the Yerevan International Film Festival . The film was shot in Vienna , Ukraine , Romania , the Czech Republic , and Slovakia from 2005 until May 2007 on 16mm film. Simultaneously, the film follows
32-589: A documentary about the actor Peter Kern . They went on to gain international notice for their feature debut, the German-language psychological horror film Goodnight Mommy (2014), which was selected as the Austrian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards . Veronika Franz was born in 1965 in Vienna , Austria. Prior to establishing a career as a filmmaker, she worked as
48-501: A film journalist for the German-language newspaper Kurier , beginning in 1997. She subsequently co-wrote several screenplays and since 2003 also co-produced with long time partner filmmaker Ulrich Seidl , including all three features in his Paradise trilogy ; she also worked as an assistant director on some projects. Severin Fiala was born in 1985 in Horn , Austria, and formally studied at
64-531: A film school. Fiala is Seidl's biological nephew, and Franz became more closely acquainted with Fiala when she and Seidl hired him to regularly babysit their two sons. Franz and Fiala found they had a mutual love of horror films. While attending a film festival, Franz met Austrian actor Peter Kern , a controversial actor and filmmaker. Recalling their meeting, Franz said: "[I talked to him] for several days actually. I only talked to him because I felt so sorry for him, but I got to know him. I really thought that he
80-417: A job as a housekeeper at a rich family's home, where she also lives. The woman of the family suspects her of stealing and sacks her. She is then employed as a cleaner at a geriatric hospital. She develops a relationship with an elderly man named Erich and he asks her to marry him. She accepts as she knows this will gain her Austrian citizenship. However, Erich dies of a heart attack before they can marry. Pauli
96-681: A job in Ukraine setting up video gambling machines. On the way there, they stop at an impoverished Roma Gypsy neighbourhood in Košice , Slovakia where Pauli tries to 'hire' a prostitute . He fails to agree on a price with the Roma pimps , and they chase him back to his van. When they arrive in Uzhhorod , Ukraine, they rent a hotel room and try to pick up girls at a bar. When Pauli goes back to his room to borrow money from Michael to pay his tab, he finds that Michael has
112-517: A nurse from Ukraine searching for a better life in the West and an unemployed security guard from Austria heading East for the same reason. Olga is a Ukrainian woman from Eastern Ukraine , who lives with her mother and has a child. Her job as a nurse does not pay well enough for her to support herself and her baby, and she gets a second job doing internet pornography . She eventually leaves her homeland and travels to Vienna , Austria where she finds
128-414: A prostitute. Michael insists Pauli watches him humiliate the prostitute before he can leave. The next day, Pauli leaves Michael's company and searches for work at a local market, where he fails to find any. The last we see of him is when he is walking along a long country road, hitchhiking , either back to the West or further into Ukraine. Ulrich Seidl His 2012 film Paradise: Love competed for
144-499: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala Veronika Franz (born 1965) and Severin Fiala (born 1985) are an Austrian filmmaking duo. Franz is a long time partner and Fiala the nephew of filmmaker Ulrich Seidl . Franz, a former film journalist, began her film career co-writing with Seidl. Franz and Fiala began their creative partnership writing and directing Kern (2012),
160-471: Is a young man from Vienna , Austria who lives with his mother and stepfather. He owns a large dog named Caeser and trains in martial arts . He works as a security guard at a shopping complex but is sacked after a gang of drunken Turks cuff him with his handcuffs and strip him of his clothes. His girlfriend breaks up with him as she is afraid of his dog, and he owes money to a number of people including his stepfather, Michael. Michael then takes him along on
176-626: The Palme d'Or at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival . The sequel Paradise: Faith won the Special Jury Prize at the 69th Venice International Film Festival . The final part of the trilogy, Paradise: Hope , premiered in competition at the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival . Seidl grew up in a Roman Catholic family. Although at one point he wanted to become a priest , he studied journalism and drama at Vienna University instead. Afterwards, he studied film-making at
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#1733086183091192-545: The Vienna Film Academy where he produced his first short, One-Forty . Two years later he produced his first full-length film, The Ball . His 2001 film Dog Days was shot over three years during the hottest days of summer. He is married to Veronika Franz , an Austrian filmmaker well known for her psychological horror features Goodnight Mommy (2014) and The Lodge (2019), which she both co-directed and co-wrote with their nephew Severin Fiala . In 2005 Seidl
208-477: Was a member of the jury at the 27th Moscow International Film Festival . He was scheduled to attend the 2014 Jerusalem Film Festival , but cancelled his visit due to the political tension in the region. Ulrich does not consider himself a documentary filmmaker, but several of his films often blend fiction and nonfiction. Several of his films are set in his home country, Austria. As director As producer This article about an Austrian film director
224-448: Was a very fascinating character and someone should do a movie about him. He used to work with Rainer Werner Fassbinder in the German cinema of the ‘70s. He was kind of erschwerte in that group. I mean, he was crazy. I thought he was really crazy." Franz decided to follow Kern for the next two years, directing and writing a documentary film on him with Fiala. The documentary, titled Kern ,
240-514: Was not nominated. Franz and Fiala subsequently co-wrote and co-directed a segment in the anthology horror film The Field Guide to Evil (2018), titled Die Trud . In 2019, the duo directed (and co-wrote, with Sergio Casci) their English-language film debut, the psychological horror film The Lodge , which premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival before being released in the United States on 7 February 2020. Their latest collaboration
256-416: Was released in 2012. In 2013, Franz and Fiala began working on their feature debut, Goodnight Mommy , a horror film about two twin boys who suspect their mother, having recently undergone cosmetic surgery, is in fact not their mother. Goodnight Mommy , co-written and co-directed by Franz and Fiala, was selected as the Austrian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards , but it
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