New Talent
Feature Film
Comedy

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)