
The Devil’s Bath

Upper Austria in 1750: Agnes, a young married woman, doesn’t feel at home in her husband’s world. The deeply religious and highly sensitive woman withdraws into herself, moving further and further away from the rural world of work and everyday life.
Ultimately, a shocking act of violence seems to be the only way out of her inner prison. This profound and disturbing psychogramm of a woman who hopes, searches and finally flees is based on historical records and charts a true, previously unexplored chapter of European (women’s) history.
Data
- Genre
- Drama
- Category
- Feature Film
- Financing
- Majoritäre Koproduktion
- Format
- DCP, 130 Min
- Release
- 08.03.2024
- Distribution
- FILMLADEN Filmverleih GmbH
- Admissions
- 20.672
- Funding Film Institute
- 1.357.483 €
- Share of Austrian production costs
- 37 %
- Share of total production costs
- 23 %
- Television investment
- 549.363 €
- Co-production
Heimatfilm GmbH + Co KG (DE, 34%)
- International funding
Filmstiftung NRW, DFFF, Eurimages
- Festivals & Awards (Selection)
Berlinale 2024 in competition
- Funding program
- ÖFI
- Film location
- Austria, Germany
- Shooting time
- November 2020 - December 2021
- Days of shooting
- 40
- Completion
- Winter 2022/2023
- Funding institutions Austria
- Filminstitut, Filmfonds Wien, Filmstandort Austria, Land Niederösterreich
Credits
- Producer Austria
- Ulrich Seidl
- Director
- Veronika Franz, Severin Fiala
- Script
- Veronika Franz, Severin Fiala
- DOP
- Martin Gschlacht
- Editor
- Michael Palm
- Sound engineer
- Andreas Hildebrandt
- Sound design
- Matz Müller
- Costume design
- Tanja Hausner
- Set design
- Andreas Donhauser, Renate Martin
- Music
- SOAP&SKIN/Anja Plaschg
- Cast
- Anja Plaschg (Agnes), David Scheid (Wolf), Maria Hofstätter (Mutter)
- Production manager
- Edgar Cox
- German Title
- Des Teufels Bad
- Television investment
- ORF (Film/Fernseh-Abkommen), BR/Arte
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