Feature Film
Drama

Schächten – A Retribution

In the late 1960s, when the young Jewish businessman’s son Victor Dessauer fails to secure just punishment for the Nazi concentration camp commandant who tortured his parents, he resolves to take the law into his own hands.

Data

Genre: Drama
Category: Feature Film
Financing: Nationaler Film
Format: DCP, 105 Min
Release: 02.12.2022
Distribution: FILMLADEN Filmverleih GmbH, FILMLADEN Filmverleih GmbH
Admissions: 6.929
Funding Film Institute: 790.411 €
Share of total production costs: 26 %
Television investment: 615.000 €
Funding program: ÖFI
first run on ORF2 Austrian Broadcasting Service: 04.02.2024
Viewers: 86.000
Film location: Vienna, Lower Austria, Salzburg, New York
Shooting time: January - February 2021
Days of shooting: 26
Completion: Summer 2021
Funding institutions Austria: Filminstitut, Filmfonds Wien, Filmstandort Austria, Land Niederösterreich, Land Salzburg

Credits

Production: Cult- Filmproduktionsgesellschaft m.b.H.
Producer Austria: Burkhard Ernst, Katharina Ernst, Thomas Roth, Konstantin Seitz, Co Produzent: Klemens Hallmann, Michel Wagner
Director: Thomas Roth
Script: Thomas Roth
DOP: Clemens Majunke
Editor: Birgit Gasser
Sound engineer: Hjalti Bager-Jonathansson
Costume design: Erika Navas
Set design: Uta Wiegele, Sebastian Thanheiser
Music: Erik K. Skodvin
Cast: Jeff Wilbusch (Victor), Paulus Manker (Kurt), Michael Abendroth (Paul), Miriam Fussenegger (Anna), Konstantin Frank (Arie), Georg Friedrich (Werner)
Production manager: Igor Orovac
German Title: Schächten
Television investment: ORF (Film/Fernseh-Abkommen)