• Documentary

The Visit

Filmplakat mit einer Nahaufnahme einer blauen menschlichen Iris, deren schwarze Pupille einen Astronauten im orangefarbenen Raumanzug vor einem Sternenhintergrund zeigt; der Titel des Films "THE VISIT" und die Untertitel auf Deutsch "EINE AUSSERIRDISCHE BEGEGNUNG" und "EIN DOKUMENTARFILM VON MICHAEL MADSEN" sind in der Mitte platziert.

THE VISIT is a documentary with comedy elements, and a philosophical exploration of our fear of strangers through the ultimate threat to our self-image: The discovery of Alien Intelligent Life.
In Vienna lies the UN-city, with its late 1970’s architecture and its extra-territorial status not unlike a giant spacecraft that has landed in the middle of the civilized world. Inside this impressive institution representing our belief in humanity, resides the UN Office of Outer Space Affairs – the OOSA.
THE VISIT opens with a close-up of an animal. It instinctively reacts to something unknown. Inside the OOSA, a phone rings. Deputy Director-General, astro-physicist, Dr. Mazlan Othman, is informed that an alien has arrived…

Data

Category
Documentary
Financing
Minority coproduction
Format
DCP, 83 Min
Approximate cinema release
09.10.2015
Release
09.10.2015
Distribution
Nikolaus Geyrhalter Filmproduktion GmbH
Admissions
1.682
Co-production

Magic Hours Films (DK), Venom Films (IE), Mouka Filmi (FI), Indie Films (NO)

International funding

Danish Film Institute, Nordisk Film & TV Fond, The Irish Film Board, Screen Scene, The Finnish Film Foundation, Norwegian Film Institute, MEDIA

Funding program
ÖFI
Film location
Vienna, Lower Austria, Europe, World
Shooting time
May - September 2013
Completion
Spring 2014
Funding institutions Austria
Filminstitut, Filmfonds Wien, Filmstandort Austria, Land Niederösterreich
Credits
Production
Nikolaus Geyrhalter Filmproduktion GmbH
Producer Austria
Nikolaus Geyrhalter, Markus Glaser, Michael Kitzberger, Wolfgang Widerhofer
Director
Michael Madsen
Script-concept
Michael Madsen
DOP
Heikki Färm
Editor
Stefan Sundlöf, Nathan Nugent
Sound engineer
Klaus Kellermann
Production manager
Flavio Marchetti
German Title
The Visit - Eine außerirdische Begegnung
Television investment
DR3, VPRO, SVT, YLE

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