New Talent
Feature Film
Drama

Ugly

A cigarette held in bloody fingers. A woman squirming in a bed, screaming. A man is waiting. A love story. A boat on Lake Neusiedl, a hospital in the Ukraine. A burning field. Another love story. Sickness and the big vanishing into oblivion. Somewhere, death is awaiting. Somewhere else life.

Data

Genre: Drama
Category: New Talent, Feature Film
Financing: Majoritäre Koproduktion
Format: Digital Video, 100 Min
Release: 02.03.2018
Distribution: ThimFilm GmbH
Funding Film Institute: 595.000 €
Share of Austrian production costs: 55 %
Share of total production costs: 41 %
Television investment: 170.000 €
Co-production: Pronto Film (UA, 30%)
International funding: Ukrainian State Film Agency (UA)
Funding program: ÖFI
first run on ORF1 Austrian Broadcasting Service: 26.03.2024
Viewers: 15.000
Film location: Ukraine, Tyrol, Vienna
Shooting time: February - May 2014
Days of shooting: 34
Completion: Winter 2015/2016
Funding institutions Austria: Filminstitut, Filmstandort Austria

Credits

Production: Film AG Produktions GmbH, Ulrich Seidl Film Produktion GmbH, Ulrich Seidl Filmproduktion GmbH
Producer Austria: Franz Novotny, Alexander Glehr, Ulrich Seidl
Director: Juri Rechinsky
Script: Juri Rechinsky, Klaus Pridnig
DOP: Wolfgang Thaler, Sebastian Thaler
Editor: Roland Stöttinger
Sound engineer: Andrii Rogachov, Borys Peter
Sound design: Andrii Rogachov, Borys Peter
Costume design: Oksana Melnychuk
Set design: Conrad Moritz Reinhardt
Music: Anton Baibakov
Cast: Angela Gregovic (Hanna), Dimitriy Bogdan (Jura), Maria Hofstätter (Martha), Raimund Wallisch (Josef), Larysa Rusnak (Mutter Jura), Vlad Troitskyi (Vater Jura)
Production manager: Klaus Pridnig
Television investment: ORF (Film/Fernseh-Abkommen)