They Called Him Spencer
The first feature length documentary film that dives into Bud Spencer’s multifaceted biography as well as the global phenomenon of the Spencer-Hill cult movies.
Data
- Category
- Documentary
- Financing
- Majoritäre Koproduktion
- Format
- DCP, 90 Min
- Release
- 28.07.2017
- Distribution
- ThimFilm GmbH
- Admissions
- 9.312
- Funding Film Institute
- 140.000 €
- Share of Austrian production costs
- 30 %
- Share of total production costs
- 23 %
- Television investment
- 90.000 €
- Co-production
Departures Film (DE, 22%)
- International funding
- Funding program
- ÖFI
- first run on ORF1 Austrian Broadcasting Service
- 18.07.2019
- Viewers
- 168.000
- Film location
- Germany, Italy, France, Austria
- Shooting time
- May - June 2016
- Days of shooting
- 23
- Completion
- Winter 2016/2017
- Funding institutions Austria
- Filminstitut, Filmstandort Austria
Credits
- Production
- EPO - Filmproduktionsgesellschaft m.b.H, Buddy Lane Productions
- Producer Austria
- Dieter Pochlatko, Jakob Pochlatko, Karl-Martin Pold
- Director
- Karl-Martin Pold
- Script-concept
- Karl-Martin Pold
- DOP
- Serafin Spitzer
- Editor
- Thomas Vondrak
- Sound engineer
- Jens Fischer
- Sound design
- Kai Tebbel
- Production manager
- Rosmarie Lackner
- German Title
- Sie nannten ihn Spencer
- Television investment
- ORF (Film/Fernseh-Abkommen)
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