New Talent
Feature Film
Drama

First Snow of Summer

Nine-year-old Alexander grows up in a small house with a small garden with his loving grandmother. On his tenth birthday, he promises her never to fall in love: He does not want to follow in his father’s footsteps and share his fate. Every Sunday, Alexander visits his father in the tunnel systems of the Vienna underground. As a young adult, he starts to care for his father and decides to be nearby. Alexander’s new workplace is a small lost-and-found office for the Vienna underground. Here he meets the beautiful and vivacious Caro. Alexander had already successfully resisted love two times before, now his promise will lead him into a bittersweet world and a fight between life and death – in which he will change the seasons from summer to winter.

Data

aka: Sommer in der Nacht Winter am Morgen
Genre: Drama
Category: Feature Film, New Talent
Financing: Nationaler Film
Format: Digital/DCP, 90 Min
Release: 03.03.2023
Distribution: FILMLADEN Filmverleih GmbH
Admissions: 13.204
Funding Film Institute: 663.394 €
Share of total production costs: 28 %
Television investment: 523.980 €
Funding program: ÖFI
first run on ORF1 Austrian Broadcasting Service: 23.06.2025
Viewers: 155.000
Film location: Vienna
Shooting time: April - May 2021
Days of shooting: 25
Completion: Winter 2021/2022
Funding institutions Austria: Filminstitut, Filmfonds Wien, Filmstandort Austria

Credits

Production: Interspot Film-Gesellschaft m.b.H.
Producer: Ingrid Klingohr, Nikolaus Klingohr
Director: Chris Raiber
Script: Chris Raiber
DOP: Mario Minichmayr
Editor: Cordula Werner
Sound engineer: Roland Winkler
Costume design: Leonie Zykan
Set design: Enid Löser
Music: Karwan Marouf
Cast: Thomas Prenn (Alexander), Verena Altenberger (Caro), Margarethe Tiesel (Großmutter)
Production manager: Irene Kainz
German Title: Sterne unter der Stadt
Television investment: ORF (Film/Fernseh-Abkommen)