
The Unintentional Kidnapping of Elfriede Ott

For two years Horst has been collecting his dead grandmother's retirement pension to help make ends meet. Everything runs smoothly until a local politician announces he will be coming by to officially wish the 95 year old a happy birthday. Without thinking twice, his friend Toni "borrows" an old lady from the hospital as a stand-in. But instead of just any old lady, he has uninteionally grabbed the famous actress Elfriede Ott.
Data
- Genre
- Comedy
- Category
- Feature Film
- Financing
- Nationaler Film
- Format
- 35 mm, 90 Min
- Approximate cinema release
- 01.10.2010
- Distribution
- Luna Filmverleih GmbH
- Admissions
- 237.471
- International funding
Stadt Graz
- Festivals & Awards (Selection)
Austrian Ticket 2010
- Funding program
- ÖFI
- Film location
- Vienna, Graz
- Shooting time
- Fall 2009
- Completion
- May 2010
- Funding institutions Austria
- Filminstitut, Filmfonds Wien, Cine Art, Cinestyria Filmcommission and Fonds
Credits
- Production
- DOR FILM Produktionsgesellschaft m.b.H.
- Producer
- Danny Krausz, Kurt Stocker
- Director
- Andreas Prochaska
- Script
- Uwe Lubrich, Alfred Schwarzenberger, Michael Ostrowski, Mitarbeit: Andreas Prochaska
- DOP
- Heinz Wehsling
- Editor
- Karin Hartusch, Daniel Prochaska
- Sound engineer
- Thomas Schmidt-Gentner
- Costume design
- Christine Ludwig
- Set design
- Maria Gruber
- Music
- Kollegium Kalksburg
- Cast
- Michael Ostrowski (Toni), Andreas Kiendl (Horst), Elfriede Ott, Gerhard Liebmann (Gerry), Angelika Niedetzky (Vroni), Simon Hatzl (Kramer), Thomas Mraz (Reinhard), Monika Reyes (Karin)
- Production manager
- Isabel Sztriberny
- German Title
- Die unabsichtliche Entführung der Frau Elfriede Ott
- Television investment
- ORF (Film/Fernseh-Abkommen)
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