New Talent
Feature Film

Small Fish

Filmplakat für den Film 'Kleine Fische' mit einem großen unscharfen Frauenkopf im Hintergrund und drei Personen mit übergroßen Köpfen in einem Aquarium mit Pflanzen und einem Hummer; roter Kreis oben rechts mit Text 'Eröffnungsfilm Diagonale 2009'

"Small Fish" is the story of two completely different brothers, who meet again after a long time at the burial of their father. The rebellious runaway and the hesitant younger brother who still lives with his parents antagonise until they find a mutual goal. With ambitious entrepreneurship they try to modernise the family's little fish shop, which they inherited from their father and want to adapt it to the requirements of nowadays. But the looked-for success fails . The shop does not survive the chance of times. At the end they lose it all but finally find themselves.

Data

Category: New Talent, Feature Film
Financing: Nationaler Film
Format: 35 mm, 87 Min
Approximate cinema release: 20.03.2009
Release: 20.03.2009
Distribution: Poool Filmverleih GmbH
Admissions: 7.952
Festivals & Awards (Selection): 2009: Publikumspreis (Bozen)
2009: Diagonale-Publikumspreis
Funding program: ÖFI
Film location: Vienna
Shooting time: April - May 2008
Completion: 31.10.2008
Funding institutions Austria: Filminstitut, Filmfonds Wien

Credits

Production: Film AG Produktions GmbH
Producer: Franz Novotny
Director: Marco Antoniazzi
Script: Marco Antoniazzi, Gregor Stadlober
DOP: Niko Mayr
Editor: Niki Mossböck
Sound engineer: Torsten Heinemann
Costume design: Veronika Albert
Set design: Hannes Hartmann
Music: Christian Pitschl
Cast: Michael Steinocher (Martin), Volker Schmidt (Kurt), Brigitte Krenn (Frau Tesarek), Sabrina Reiter (Karin)
Production manager: Gottlieb Pallendorf
German Title: Kleine Fische
Television investment: ORF (Film/Fernseh-Abkommen)