Feature Film
Drama

Der Fall Wilhelm Reich

At the end of his life, Wilhelm Reich – psychiatrist and experimental scientist searching for the fundamentals of life – finds himself on trial, charged with deception. His dream of liberating human individuality makes him a dangerous opponent of an American system that is striving after 1945 for global hegemony, using all available means. Was it madness to believe in man’s liberty or was Reich simply in the wrong place at the wrong time, and being a holistic global thinker, accurately observing fa-reaching socio-political linkages? Ten years after his mysterious death, his writings, once burnt by the US FDA, become an important source of inspiration for a ’68 generation in revolt.

Data

aka: The Strange Case of Wilhelm Reich; Reich; Wilhelm Reich; The Boundary Man
Genre: Drama
Category: Feature Film
Financing: Nationaler Film
Format: 35 mm, 110 Min
Release: 18.01.2013
Distribution: FILMLADEN Filmverleih GmbH
Admissions: 24.971
Funding program: ÖFI
Film location: Vienna, Lower Austria, Spain
Shooting time: Fall 2011
Completion: Summer 2012
Funding institutions Austria: Filminstitut, Filmfonds Wien, Filmstandort Austria, Land Niederösterreich

Credits

Production: coop 99 filmproduktion G.m.b.H., Lotus Filmrechte GmbH, Film AG Produktions GmbH
Producer Austria: Antonin Svoboda, Martin Gschlacht, Franz Novotny, Alexander Glehr
Director: Antonin Svoboda
Script: Antonin Svoboda
DOP: Martin Gschlacht
Editor: Oliver Neumann
Sound engineer: Odo Grötschnig
Costume design: Tanja Hausner
Set design: Katharina Wöppermann
Music: Bernd Jungmair, Stefan Jungmair
Cast: Klaus Maria Brandauer (Wilhelm), Julia Jentsch (Eva), Jeanette Hain (Ilse), Jamie Sives (Hamilton), Kenny Doughty (Paul), Birgit Minichmayr (Aurora), Gary Lewis (Dr. Cameron), David Rasche (Hills)
Production manager: Gottlieb Pallendorf
Television investment: ORF (Film/Fernseh-Abkommen)