Feature Film
Comedy

Therapy for a Vampire

Filmplakat von Der Vampir auf der Couch mit drei Hauptfiguren vor einem Vollmondhintergrund, linken Charakter mit schwarzem Bob und dunklem Outfit, mittleren Mann mit Anzug und dozierendem Blick, und rechte Frau in oranger Robe, zusätzlich eine ältere Figur mit Brille unten, umgeben von Fledermäusen und dunklem Nachthimmel.

Vienna, the early 1930s: One night Sigmund Freud has a new patient on his couch – a mysterious count who can no longer bear the “eternally long” relationship with his wife. The vain countess incessantly complains about not being able to look at herself in a mirror, the professor hears from the count. Unaware of the fact that the count and his wife are vampires, Freud introduces his mysterious patient to a young painter, Viktor, who paints portraits which express more than a mirror ever could. While visiting the painter, the count takes an instant shine to Viktor’s girlfriend Lucy – more so than Viktor and the countess would like.

Data

aka: Im Schatten des Spiegels
Genre: Comedy
Category: Feature Film
Financing: Majoritäre Koproduktion
Format: DCP, 87 Min
Approximate cinema release: 19.12.2014
Release: 19.12.2014
Distribution: ThimFilm GmbH
Admissions: 20.219
Co-production: Hugo Film (CH)
International funding: BAK Bundesamt für Kultur, Zürcher Filmstiftung
Funding program: ÖFI
Film location: Lower Austria, Vienna, Salzburg
Shooting time: Winter 2013
Completion: Fall 2014
Funding institutions Austria: Filminstitut, Filmfonds Wien, Filmstandort Austria, Land Niederösterreich

Credits

Production: Film AG Produktions GmbH
Producer Austria: Franz Novotny, Alexander Glehr
Director: David Rühm
Script: David Rühm
DOP: Martin Gschlacht
Editor: Claudio Cea
Sound engineer: Patrick Storck
Costume design: Monika Buttinger
Set design: Andreas Sobotka
Music: Beat Solèr
Cast: Tobias Moretti (Graf Közsnöm), Jeanette Hain (Gräfin Közsnöm), Cornelia Ivancan (Lucy), Dominic Oley (Victor), David Bennent (Radul), Karl Fischer (Dr. Sigmund Freud), Erni Mangold (Fräulein Sedlacek)
Production manager: Gottlieb Pallendorf
German Title: Der Vampir auf der Couch
Television investment: ORF (Film/Fernseh-Abkommen), SRF, SRG SSR