New Talent
Feature Film
Drama

Eismayer

Sergeant Major Eismayer is known and feared as the toughest training officer in the Austrian Armed Forces, ruthless with recruits and unwavering in his discipline, order and macho toughness. But when he starts to fall in love with Falak, a new recruit who unashamedly embraces his homosexuality, Eismayer’s closeted existence is shaken to the core. To a man like Eismayer, loving another man cannot be reconciled with the understanding of what a model soldier should be. Will he choose to protect his badass tough guy image over all else, or can he follow his heart and his true desire? Inspired by a true story.

Data

Genre: Drama
Category: Feature Film, New Talent
Financing: Nationaler Film
Format: Digit., 87 Min
Release: 28.10.2022
Distribution: FILMLADEN Filmverleih GmbH
Admissions: 31.445
Funding Film Institute: 528.359 €
Share of total production costs: 21 %
Television investment: 514.504 €
Funding program: ÖFI
first run on ORF1 Austrian Broadcasting Service: 26.10.2024
Viewers: 255.000
Film location: Vienna, Lower Austria, Styria, Salzburg
Shooting time: August - December 2021
Days of shooting: 30
Completion: Summer 2022
Funding institutions Austria: Filminstitut, Filmfonds Wien, Filmstandort Austria, Land Niederösterreich, Cine Art

Credits

Production: Golden Girls Filmproduktion & Filmservices GmbH
Producer: Arash T. Riahi, Sabine Gruber
Director: David Wagner
Script: David Wagner
DOP: Serafin Spitzer
Editor: Stephan Bechinger
Sound engineer: Claus Benischke-Lang
Costume design: Monika Buttinger
Set design: Thiare Galleguillos, Raphael Caric
Music: Lylit
Cast: Gerhard Liebmann (Charles Eismayer), Luka Dimić (Mario), Julia Koschitz (Christina Eismayer)
Production manager: Christine Schwarzinger
Television investment: ORF (Film/Fernseh-Abkommen), ZDF/ARTE