New Talent
Feature Film
Drama

Breaking the Ice

Mira lives for the sport of ice hockey and leads her team as captain with a strong determination. It’s a challenge to reconcile this with her role in the family vineyard: with her mother and her adventurous but increasingly demented grandfather, she runs the farm – with all its responsibilities.

The new player Theresa completely unsettles her with her nonchalance and openness. And when Mira’s missing brother Paul also turns up and all three get lost in late-night Vienna, Mira discovers the freedom it means to break rules, to reinvent herself – and that you can only love if you let go.

Data

Genre: Drama
Category: Feature Film, New Talent
Financing: Nationaler Film
Format: 102 Min
Release: 25.11.2022
Distribution: FILMLADEN Filmverleih GmbH
Admissions: 6.051
Funding Film Institute: 618.812 €
Share of total production costs: 26 %
VoD Release: 12.05.2023
DVD Release: 26.05.2023
Funding program: ÖFI
Film location: Vienna, Lower Austria
Shooting time: Spring 2021
Days of shooting: 30
Completion: Winter 2021/2022
Funding institutions Austria: Filminstitut, Filmfonds Wien, Filmstandort Austria, Land Niederösterreich

Credits

Production: Nikolaus Geyrhalter Filmproduktion GmbH
Producer: Michael Kitzberger, Wolfgang Widerhofer, Nikolaus Geyrhalter, Markus Glaser
Director: Clara Stern
Script: Clara Stern
DOP: Johannes Hoss
Editor: Matthias Writze
Sound engineer: Nora Czamler
Costume design: Carola Pizzini
Set design: Christine Dosch, Julia Oberndorfinger
Music: Benedikt Palier
Cast: Alina Schaller (Mira), Pia Hierzegger (Mutter), Wolfgang Böck (Opa), Judith Altenberger (Theresa), Tobias Resch (Paul)
Production manager: Gerhard Hannak
German Title: Breaking the Ice
Television investment: ORF Film/Fernseh-Abkommen