Feature Film
Comedy

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
Release: 09.07.2021
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
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)