
Side Effects and Risks

A routine check-up reveals that the Pilates trainer Kathrin is suffering from kidney disease and needs a transplant.Her husband Arnold is a successful architect in the middle of a large project and is afraid of donating one of his kidneys.Götz, a friend of the couple’s, would undergo the operation immediately if it means saving Kathrin’s life – even though thiscauses problems with his partner Diana. Confronted by issues of life and death, the fragility of the relationships withinand between the couples is laid bare. Eventually, the question can no longer be avoided: what is true love?
Data
- aka
- Die Niere
- Genre
- Comedy
- Category
- Feature Film
- Financing
- Nationaler Film
- Format
- LTO file, 100 Min
- Distribution
- Luna Filmverleih GmbH
- Admissions
- 10.804
- Funding Film Institute
- 660.636 €
- Share of total production costs
- 29 %
- Television investment
- 500.000 €
- Funding program
- ÖFI
- first run on ORF2 Austrian Broadcasting Service
- 15.03.2023
- Viewers
- 541.000
- Film location
- Vienna, Lower Austria
- Shooting time
- November - December 2019
- Days of shooting
- 28
- Start of shooting
- 05.11.2019
- Completion
- Spring 2020
- Funding institutions Austria
- Filminstitut, Filmfonds Wien, Filmstandort Austria, Land Niederösterreich
Credits
- Production
- EPO - Filmproduktionsgesellschaft m.b.H
- Producer
- Dieter Pochlatko, Jakob Pochlatko
- Director
- Michael Kreihsl
- Script
- Michael Kreihsl
- DOP
- Wolfgang Thaler AAC, Carsten Thiele
- Editor
- Andrea Wagner
- Sound engineer
- Heinz Ebner, Hjalti Bager-Jonathansson
- Sound design
- Manuel Grandpierre
- Costume design
- Monika Buttinger
- Set design
- Julia Oberndorfinger, Hannes Salat
- Cast
- Samuel Finzi (Arnold), Pia Hierzegger (Diana), Inka Friedrich (Kathrin), Thomas Mraz (Götz)
- Production manager
- Gerhard Hannak
- German Title
- Risiken und Nebenwirkungen
- Television investment
- ORF (Film/Fernseh-Abkommen)
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