• 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
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