Documentary

VIENNA CALLING

VIENNA CALLING shows unknown facets of Viennese culture away from the mainstream. The result is an electrifying and poetic approach to the music and cultural scene of a European metropolis, where the current developments and conflicts of our time take place. The Viennese artists take the space they need. But this space is getting narrower and narrower…

VIENNA CALLING is not a music documentary in the classical sense and certainly not an Austropop history lesson, but an entertaining docu-musical. The protagonists of the film – including Der Nino aus Wien, Lydia Haider and Voodoo Jürgens – visibly enjoy playing. VIENNA CALLING offers them another cinematic stage, which they take with joy and perform with a lot of Viennese “Schmäh“.

Data

Category: Documentary
Financing: Minority coproduction
Format: Digital Video, 90 Min
Release: 25.08.2023
Distribution: FILMLADEN Filmverleih GmbH
Admissions: 8.042
Funding Film Institute: 101.235 €
Share of Austrian production costs: 28 %
Share of total production costs: 11 %
Television investment: 103.674 €
Co-production: Fruitmarket & Lizenzen (DE, 52%)
International funding: Filmstiftung NRW, BKM, DFFF
Funding program: ÖFI
Film location: Vienna
Shooting time: November 2020 - November 2021
Days of shooting: 25
Completion: Winter 2022/2023
Funding institutions Austria: Filminstitut, Filmfonds Wien, Filmstandort Austria

Credits

Production: AMOUR FOU Vienna GmbH
Producer Austria: Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu, Bady Minck
Director: Philipp Jedicke
Script-concept: Philipp Jedicke
DOP: Max Berner
Editor: Max Berner, Carina Mergens
Sound engineer: Ken Rischard, Flora Rajakowitsch
Sound design: Andreas Hildebrandt
Protagonists: Voodoo Jürgens, Stefanie Sargnagel, Lydia Haider, Nino aus Wien, Esrap
Music: Paul Gallister
Production manager: Julian Berner
Television investment: ORF (Film/Fernseh-Abkommen), BR/ARTE