New Talent
Feature Film

Blue Moon

Johnny Pichler is a money courier with big problems. He desperately falls in love with Shirley, a mysterious young woman who has problems of similar magnitude. On a joint flight they spend a couple of days together in Slovakia when Shirley abruptly disappears leaving Johnny longing for more. The search for her leads Johnny to her twin sister, who works as a taxi cab driver in the Ukrainian city of Lviv. Jana, he finds out, harbours even more mysteries than her sister. Johnny joins the company of Ignaz Springer, a part-time criminal from Eastern Germany, who tramps the Ukraine with Pichler to find all questions answered in the Port of Odessa on the shores of the Black Sea.

Data

Category: New Talent, Feature Film
Financing: Nationaler Film
Format: 35 mm, 100 Min
Approximate cinema release
Release: 08.11.2002
Distribution: FILMLADEN Filmverleih GmbH
Admissions: 36.741
Festivals & Awards (Selection): 2003: Großer Diagonale Preis (Andrea Maria Dusl)
Funding program: ÖFI
Film location: Bratislava, Slowakei, Ukraine, Lviv, Kiev, Odessa
Shooting time: April bis Juni 2001
Funding institutions Austria: Filminstitut, Filmfonds Wien

Credits

Production: Lotus Filmrechte GmbH
Producer: Erich Lackner, Klaus Pridnig
Director: Andrea Maria Dusl
Script: Andrea Maria Dusl
DOP: Wolfgang Thaler
Editor: Karina Ressler, Andrea Wagner
Sound engineer: Ekkehart Baumung
Set design: Hannes Salat, Svetlana Filahtova, Mihal Skrak
Music: Christian Fennesz, Peter Dusl, Yuri Naumov
Cast: Viktoria Malektorovych (Shirley/Jana), Josef Hader (Johnny), Detlev Buck (Ignaz)
Production manager: Max Linder
International distribution: First Hand Films