Documentary
New Talent

The Child in the Box

Filmplakat mit einem Baby, das in einer mit einem Kissen ausgelegten Pappschachtel liegt, darüber der Titel 'Das Kind in der Schachtel' in weißen, handschriftlichen Buchstaben und darunter die Information 'Ein Film von Gloria Dürnberger' sowie weitere Filmcredits auf grauem Hintergrund.

The story of a mother who develops symptoms of schizophrenia shortly before her child is born. And the story of a child taken in by a foster family, though she does not know for how long. Thirty years later the child, now an adult, assumes responsibility for the woman who calls herself her mother. How is a person connected, if at all, to an individual she has never spent more than two hours at a time with, with whom she doesn’t even appear in a photograph?

Data

Category: Documentary, New Talent
Financing: Nationaler Film
Format: DCP, 85 Min
Approximate cinema release: 09.05.2014
Release: 09.05.2014
Distribution: Nikolaus Geyrhalter Filmproduktion GmbH
Admissions: 5.009
Funding program: ÖFI
Film location: Vienna, Berlin
Shooting time: November 2012 - July 2013
Completion: Winter 2013/2014
Funding institutions Austria: Filminstitut, Filmfonds Wien, Filmstandort Austria

Credits

Production: Nikolaus Geyrhalter Filmproduktion GmbH
Producer: Michael Kitzberger, Wolfgang Widerhofer, Nikolaus Geyrhalter, Markus Glaser
Director: Gloria Dürnberger
Script-concept: Gloria Dürnberger
DOP: Leena Koppe, Gloria Dürnberger
Editor: Natalie Schwager
Sound engineer: Laura Endres
Protagonists: Margarete Dürnberger, Gloria Dürnberger, Evelin Höller, Helmut Höller, Johannes Pletzer, Rainer Höller, Bettina Höller, ua.
Music: Martin Klein
Production manager: Katharina Posch, Flavio Marchetti
German Title: Das Kind in der Schachtel
Television investment: ORF (Film/Fernseh-Abkommen)