Documentary

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