
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)
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