New Talent
Feature Film

Wild Mouse

When 50-year-old Georg loses his job as music critic with a Vienna newspaper he conceals the fact from his younger wife Johanna, who wants a child with him. Instead, he embarks upon a campaign of revenge against his former boss and begins to renovate a rollercoaster in the Wurstelprater amusement park along with an old school friend, Erich, who is also unemployed.

Data

aka: Die wilde Maus
Category: New Talent, Feature Film
Financing: Nationaler Film
Format: DCP, 100 Min
Release: 17.02.2017
Distribution: FILMLADEN Filmverleih GmbH
Admissions: 280.738
Funding Film Institute: 982.294 €
Share of total production costs: 35 %
Television investment: 689.000 €
Funding program: ÖFI
first run on ORF1 Austrian Broadcasting Service: 25.01.2019
Viewers: 590.000
Film location: Vienna, Lower Austria
Shooting time: September - November 2015
Days of shooting: 42
Completion: Summer 2016
Funding institutions Austria: Filminstitut, Filmfonds Wien, Land Niederösterreich

Credits

Production: Wega-Filmproduktionsgesellschaft m.b.H.
Producer: Veit Heiduschka, Michael Katz
Director: Josef Hader
Script: Josef Hader
DOP: Andreas Thalhammer, Xiaosu Han
Editor: Ulrike Kofler, Monika Willi, Christoph Brunner
Sound engineer: Hjalti Bager Jonathansson
Sound design: Manuel Grandpierre, Martin Greunz
Costume design: Max Wohlkönig
Set design: Christoph Kanter
Cast: Josef Hader (Georg), Pia Hierzegger (Johanna), Jörg Hartmann (Waller), Denis Moschitto (Sebastian), Georg Friedrich (Erich), Nora von Waldstätten (Redakteurin Fitz)
Production manager: Ulrike Lässer
German Title: Wilde Maus
Television investment: ORF (Film/Fernseh-Abkommen), ARD/DEGETO