
Ingeborg Bachmann – Journey into the Desert

At the centre of the film is Ingeborg Bachmann, the radical writer and uncompromising woman. The film tells the story of the author’s life in Berlin, Zurich and Rome, her relationship with Max Frisch, her trip to Egypt and her radical texts and readings, which paraphrase the style of her literature and life: “Truth is reasonable for man”.
Data
- Genre
- Drama
- Category
- Feature Film
- Financing
- Minority coproduction
- Format
- Digital Video, 110 Min
- Release
- 13.10.2023
- Distribution
- Filmcasino & Polyfilm Betriebs GmbH
- Admissions
- 34.499
- Funding Film Institute
- 449.077 €
- Share of Austrian production costs
- 15 %
- Share of total production costs
- 5 %
- Television investment
- 323.961 €
- Co-production
tellfilm (CH, 29%), Heimatfilm (DE, 23%), Amour Fou Luxembourg (LU, 23%)
- International funding
BAK, Zürcher Filmstiftung, Media Ersatzmaßnahmen in der Schweiz, Eurimages, NRW, FFA, DFFF, Film Fund Luxembourg
- Funding program
- ÖFI
- Film location
- Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Germany, Italy, Jordan
- Shooting time
- March - June 2022
- Days of shooting
- 41
- Completion
- Spring 2023
- Funding institutions Austria
- Filminstitut, Filmfonds Wien, Filmstandort Austria, Land Kärnten, Land Niederösterreich
Credits
- Production
- AMOUR FOU Vienna GmbH
- Producer Austria
- Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu
- Director
- Margarethe von Trotta
- Script
- Margarethe von Trotta
- DOP
- Martin Gschlacht
- Editor
- Hansjörg Weißbrich
- Sound engineer
- Patrick Storck
- Sound design
- Jacques Kieffer
- Costume design
- Ulli Simon
- Set design
- Su Erdt
- Music
- Andrè Mergenthaler
- Cast
- Vicky Krieps (Ingeborg Bachmann), Ronald Zehrfeld (Max Frisch), Tobias Resch (Adolf Opel)
- Production manager
- Igor Orovac
- German Title
- Ingeborg Bachmann - Reise in die Wüste
- Television investment
- ORF (Film/Fernseh-Abkommen), SRF
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