Life Guidance

The film is set in the near future, in a world of perfect capitalism. Alexander, an exponent of the performing middle class, starts to rebel. He gets confronted with the horror of the system in all its friendliness and brightness.

Genre Thriller
Category Feature Film
Financing National movie
Production KGP Filmproduktion GmbH
Format DCP, 101 Min
Release 12.01.2018
Distribution Stadtkino Filmverleih und Kinobetriebs Gesellschaft m.b.H.
Admissions 6.087
Viewers 71.000
Funding Film Institute 870.000 €
Share of total production costs 37 %
Television investment 480.000 €

End of Retention Period

first run on ORF2 Austrian Broadcasting Service 08.09.2019
DVD/VoD 20180712
Pay TV 12.01.2019
Free TV 12.07.2019

Gender & Diversity

Details:

German Title Life Guidance
Script Ruth Mader, Martin Leidenfrost
Director Ruth Mader
DOP Christine A. Maier
Editor Niki Mossböck
Sound engineer Heinz Ebner
Producer Gabriele Kranzelbinder
Costume design Tanja Hausner
Set design Renate Martin, Andreas Donhauser
Music Manfred Plessl
Cast Fritz Karl (Alexander), Katharina Lorenz (Anna), Florian Teichtmeister (Gregor), Petra Morzé (Iris)
Production manager Stephanie Wagner
Funding institutions Austria Filminstitut, Filmfonds Wien, Filmstandort Austria
Television investment ORF (Film/Fernseh-Abkommen)
Film location Vienna, Lower Austria, Africa
Shooting time September - November 2016
Days of shooting 33
Start of shooting 12.09.2016
Completion Spring 2017