
Mermaids don’t cry

Annika, a supermarket saleswoman, dreams of the perfect mermaid fin. It would bring glamour into her chaotic world where her father moves back in with her, her girlfriend dumps her children on her and her potential lover no longer leaves because he is homeless. There are also plans to make savings in the supermarket and the shamanically trained branch manager is looking for potential lay-offs. But none of that matters: Annika needs the fin and it costs 2.458,- euro.
Data
- Genre
- Comedy
- Category
- Feature Film, New Talent
- Financing
- Nationaler Film
- Format
- DCP, 91 Min
- Release
- 07.07.2023
- Distribution
- FILMLADEN Filmverleih GmbH
- Admissions
- 6.146
- Funding Film Institute
- 550.281 €
- Share of total production costs
- 28 %
- Television investment
- 487.859 €
- Funding program
- ÖFI
- first run on ORF1 Austrian Broadcasting Service
- 09.06.2025
- Viewers
- 148.000
- Film location
- Vienna, Croatia
- Shooting time
- July - September 2021
- Days of shooting
- 30
- Completion
- Winter 2021/2022
- Funding institutions Austria
- Filminstitut, Filmfonds Wien, Filmstandort Austria
Credits
- Production
- PRISMA Film- und Fernsehproduktion GmbH
- Producer
- Viktoria Salcher, Mathias Forberg
- Director
- Franziska Pflaum
- Script
- Christiane Kalss, Franziska Pflaum
- DOP
- Robert Oberrainer
- Editor
- Friederike Hohmuth
- Sound engineer
- Gregor Manhardt
- Sound design
- Veronika Hlawatsch
- Costume design
- Johanna Pflaum
- Set design
- Thomas Lehner, Rafael Loß
- Music
- Anda Revertera, Moritz Scharf
- Cast
- Stefanie Reinsperger (Annika), Karl Fischer (Hermann), Nico Ehrenteit (Marc), Julia Franz Richter (Karo), Inga Busch (Mrs. Biber)
- Production manager
- Peter Schellnast, Bernhard Schmatz
- German Title
- MERMAIDS DON'T CRY
- Television investment
- ORF (Film/Fernseh-Abkommen)
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