New Talent
Feature Film
Drama

Great Freedom

In post-war Germany Hans is imprisoned again and again for being homosexual. Due to paragraph 175 his desire for freedom is systematically destroyed. The one steady relationship in his life becomes his long time cell mate, Viktor, a convicted murderer. What starts as revulsion grows into something called love.

Data

Genre: Drama
Category: Feature Film, New Talent
Financing: Majoritäre Koproduktion
Format: DCP, 100 Min
Release: 19.11.2021
Distribution: FILMLADEN Filmverleih GmbH
Admissions: 15.580
Funding Film Institute: 582.544 €
Share of Austrian production costs: 47 %
Share of total production costs: 16 %
Television investment: 354.000 €
Co-production: Rohfilm Productions GmbH (DE, 50%)
International funding: Medienboard BB, Mitteldeutsche Medienstiftung, DFFF, BKM
Funding program: ÖFI
first run on ORF1 Austrian Broadcasting Service: 08.06.2023
Viewers: 112.000
Film location: Germany, Austria
Shooting time: February - April 2020
Days of shooting: 32
Completion: Winter 2020/2021
Funding institutions Austria: Filminstitut, Filmfonds Wien, Filmstandort Austria

Credits

Production: FreibeuterFilm GmbH
Producer Austria: Oliver Neumann, Sabine Moser
Director: Sebastian Meise
Script: Thomas Reider, Sebastian Meise
DOP: Crystel Fournier
Editor: Joana Scrinzi
Sound engineer: Jörg Theil
Costume design: Tanja Hausner, Andrea Hölzl
Set design: Michael Randel
Cast: Franz Rogowski (Hans), Georg Friedrich (Viktor), Anton von Lucke (Leo), Thomas Prenn (Oskar)
Production manager: Lena Krins, Stephanie Wagner
German Title: Große Freiheit
Television investment: ORF (Film/Fernseh-Abkommen), ZDF