Feature Film
Thriller

SERVIAM – I will serve

An all-girl Catholic boarding school near Vienna for the wealthy Austrian elite and their children. The school is thriving, but faith is declining and the upper floors are deserted. The head of the institution, a young energetic nun, fights with ardor against this decline. Martha, 12, one of the nun’s favorite pupils, is a devoted girl who wishes to expiate the sins of the world. Encouraged by the nun, she is given a penance belt and taken to the abandoned upper floor.

Data

Genre: Thriller
Category: Feature Film
Financing: Nationaler Film
Format: DCP, 106 Min
Release: 02.12.2022
Distribution: Panda Lichtspiele Filmverleih GmbH, Panda Lichtspiele Filmverleih GmbH
Admissions: 1.605
Funding Film Institute: 893.562 €
Share of total production costs: 27 %
Television investment: 650.000 €
Funding program: ÖFI
Film location: Vienna, Lower Austria, Africa
Shooting time: July - August 2021
Days of shooting: 35
Completion: Winter 2021/2022
Funding institutions Austria: Filminstitut, Filmfonds Wien, Filmstandort Austria, Land Niederösterreich

Credits

Production: EPO - Filmproduktionsgesellschaft m.b.H, Ruth Mader
Producer: Dieter Pochlatko, Jakob Pochlatko, Ruth Mader
Director: Ruth Mader
Script: Ruth Mader, Martin Leidenfrost
DOP: Christine A. Maier
Editor: Niki Mossböck
Sound engineer: Hjalti Bager-Jonathansson
Sound design: Nils Kirchhoff, Karim Weth
Costume design: Tanja Hausner
Set design: Donmartin Supersets, Renate Martin, Andreas Donhauser
Music: Manfred Plessl
Cast: Maria Dragus (Schwester), Leona Lindinger (Sabine), Anna Elisabeth Berger (Armo), Sophia Gómez-Schreiber (Martha), Petra Morze (Schwester Agnes), Udo Samel (Mann im dunklen Anzug)
Production manager: Stephanie Wagner
German Title: Serviam - Ich will dienen
Television investment: ORF (Film/Fernseh-Abkommen)