• New Talent
  • Feature Film
  • Drama

Above the World

ABOVE THE WORLD is the moving true story of Elias, a young man who turned away from the established tenets of a profit-oriented society in the late 1960s and chose to live his life in tune with nature.

Data

Genre
Drama
Category
Feature Film, New Talent
Financing
Majoritäre Koproduktion
Format
4K, 100 Min
Release
19.08.2022
Distribution
FILMLADEN Filmverleih GmbH
Admissions
37.839
Funding Film Institute
757.617 €
Share of Austrian production costs
29 %
Share of total production costs
26 %
Television investment
706.522 €
Co-production

IT Media (DE, 10%)

International funding

MFG Baden-Würtemberg

Funding program
ÖFI
first run on ORF2 Austrian Broadcasting Service
30.05.2024
Viewers
570.000
Film location
Tyrol
Shooting time
August - December 2020
Days of shooting
32
Completion
Summer 2021
Funding institutions Austria
Filminstitut, Filmfonds Wien, Filmstandort Austria, Cine Tirol
Credits
Production
Metafilm GmbH, WHee Film GmbH
Producer Austria
Isabelle Welter, Michael Cencig, Rupert Henning
Director
Adrian Goiginger
Script
Adrian Goiginger, Felix Mitterer
DOP
Klemens Hufnagl, Paul Sprinz
Editor
Birgit Foerster
Sound engineer
André Zacher
Sound design
Marvin Keil
Costume design
Monika Buttinger
Set design
Maria Gruber
Cast
Gerti Drassl (Mutter), Verena Altenberger (Moid), Johannes Krisch (Elias 60), Harald Windisch (Vater), Jakob Mader (Elias 18+), Carmen Gratl (Rosi 58)
Production manager
Christine Schwarzinger
German Title
Märzengrund
Television investment
ORF (Film/Fernseh-Abkommen), SWR