Feature documentary

Sleeping with a Tiger

SLEEPING WITH A TIGER is a hybrid film about the Austrian painter Maria Lassnig. A film about her struggle in the male dominated art world and the quest to find her own personal artistic way of expression in which she brings her inner pain on canvas. And of course, a film about her great artistic success.

This Movie is a biopic within its own form. Maria Lassnig is always played by the same actress, no matter if she is 6, 14, 64 or 94 years old in the portrayed scene. There is no make up to change the appearance of the actress. She glides through the decades as an eternally identical figure. This is an artistic translation of her mental state. It is said about Maria Lassnig that she was ageless. Wise as a young girl and young at heart as an old woman. So, the theme changes from a biopic to a poetic approach as a whole to process that our soul, regardless of age, always remains the same.

Data

Category: Feature documentary
Financing: Nationaler Film
Format: Digital Video, 107 Min
Release: 12.04.2024
Distribution: Stadtkino Filmverleih und Kinobetriebs Gesellschaft m.b.H.
Admissions: 36.102
Funding Film Institute: 849.182 €
Share of total production costs: 35 %
Television investment: 517.698 €
Film location: Vienna, Carinthia, Lower Austria
Shooting time: March - April 2022
Days of shooting: 28
Completion: Spring 2023
Funding institutions Austria: Filminstitut, Filmfonds Wien, Filmstandort Austria, Land Niederösterreich, Land Kärnten

Credits

Production: coop 99 filmproduktion G.m.b.H.
Producer: Antonin Svoboda
Director: Anja Salomonowitz
Script: Anja Salomonowitz
DOP: Jo Molitoris
Editor: Joana Scrinzi
Sound engineer: Hjalti Bager-Jonathansson
Sound design: Veronika Hlawatsch
Costume design: Tanja Hausner
Set design: Martin Reiter
Cast: Birgit Minichmayr (Maria Lassnig), Johanna Orsini (Mathilde Lassnig), Lukas Watzl (Hans Werner Poschauko), Oskar Haag (Arnulf Rainer)
Production manager: Philipp Grandits
German Title: Mit einem Tiger schlafen
Television investment: ORF (Film/Fernseh-Abkommen)