• 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)