
Notes from the Underworld

There is unrest in the milieu of the Viennese underworld of the 1960s.
In a controversial trial the singer Kurt Girk and his legendary friend Alois have to pay for their proximity to the illegal card game “Stoss” with long prison sentences. In calm black-and-white pictures the charismatic protagonists tell about this time from a position never shown before.
The film is a declaration of love to a past Vienna as well as a moral picture of post-war Austria.
Data
- aka
- Stoss; Die Wiener Unterwelt und was es sonst nie gegeben hat
- Category
- Documentary
- Financing
- Nationaler Film
- Format
- DCP, 115 Min
- Release
- 10.09.2021
- Distribution
- Stadtkino Filmverleih und Kinobetriebs Gesellschaft m.b.H.
- Admissions
- 7.553
- Funding Film Institute
- 160.095 €
- Share of total production costs
- 55 %
- International funding
Provinz Bozen (Amt für Kultur)
- Funding program
- ÖFI
- first run on ORF2 Austrian Broadcasting Service
- 31.10.2022
- Viewers
- 27.000
- Film location
- Vienna
- Shooting time
- April 2017 - October 2018
- Days of shooting
- 30
- Completion
- Winter 2019/2020
- Funding institutions Austria
- Filminstitut, Wien Kulturabteilung
Credits
- Production
- Vento Film Productions GmbH
- Producer
- Rainer Frimmel
- Director
- Tizza Covi, Rainer Frimmel
- Script-concept
- Rainer Frimmel
- DOP
- Rainer Frimmel
- Editor
- Tizza Covi, Manuel Grandpierre
- Sound engineer
- Tizza Covi
- Protagonists
- Kurt Girk, Alois Schmutzer
- Production manager
- Rainer Frimmel
- German Title
- Aufzeichnungen aus der Unterwelt
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