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
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