New Talent
Feature Film
Drama

The Way Things Go

Alice and Niklas are happy, they lack nothing – but a child. After a few failed invitros, they go on holiday to Elba to leave their wish for a child behind them. Right there, however, everything they tried to repress comes up again. A cheerful Tyrolean family moves directly into the neighboring house and seems to have everything that Alice and Niklas lack in life. Through an unforeseen disaster there is a change in their view of the things and meaning in their lives, in which the most natural thing in the world does not avail.

Data

aka: Der Lauf der Dinge
Genre: Drama
Category: Feature Film, New Talent
Financing: Nationaler Film
Format: DCP, 100 Min
Release: 19.05.2021
Distribution: FILMLADEN Filmverleih GmbH
Admissions: 832
Funding Film Institute: 818.000 €
Share of total production costs: 36 %
Television investment: 495.000 €
International funding: Fondazione Sardegna Film Commission
Funding program: ÖFI
first run on ORF1 Austrian Broadcasting Service: 08.06.2023
Viewers: 232.000
Film location: Sardinia, Vienna, Styria, Carinthia
Shooting time: September - October 2019
Days of shooting: 30
Completion: Spring 2020
Funding institutions Austria: Filminstitut, Filmfonds Wien, Filmstandort Austria

Credits

Production: Film AG Produktions GmbH
Producer: Alexander Glehr, Johanna Scherz
Director: Ulrike Kofler
Script: Ulrike Kofler, Sandra Bohle, unter Mitarbeit von Marie Kreutzer nach der Kurzgeschichte "Der Lauf der Dinge" von Peter Stamm
DOP: Robert Oberrainer
Editor: Marie Kreutzer
Sound engineer: Claus Benischke-Lang
Sound design: Karim Weth
Costume design: Monika Buttinger
Set design: Gerald Freimuth
Cast: Lavinia Wilson (Alice), Elyas M'Barek (Niklas), Anna Unterberger (Christl), Lukas Spisser (Romed)
Production manager: Karin Schmatz
German Title: Was wir wollten
Television investment: ORF (Film/Fernseh-Abkommen)