
Lourdes

Christine is a prisoner of her paralysis. Her range of vision is restricted to a small fragment of the world. She lives only half a life, but she desperately wants to take part in the world around her and to lead a whole life. Christine’s handicap is a me-tapher for feelings of inadequacy and imperfection and the miracle incarnates her desire to live a better life.
Data
- Category
- Feature Film
- Financing
- Majoritäre Koproduktion
- Format
- 35 mm, 99 Min
- Approximate cinema release
- 11.12.2009
- Release
- 11.12.2009
- Admissions
- 16.269
- Co-production
Essential Film (DE), Thermidor Film (DE), Société Parisienne de Production (FR)
- International funding
Eurimages, Regionalförderung Midi-Pyrenäen, Medienboard Berlin Brandenburg, Filmstiftung Nordrhein Westfalen
- Festivals & Awards (Selection)
2009: FIPRESCI Preis, SIGNIS Prize, La Navicella Venice Cinema Award, Brian Award (Venedig)
2009: Warsaw Grand Prix (Warschau)
2009: Gold Giraldillo for Best Film (Sevilla)
2009: Wiener Filmpreis Spielfilm
2010: Förderpreis der DEFA Stiftung (Saarbrücken)
2010: Thomas-Pluch-Drehbuchpreis- Funding program
- ÖFI
- Film location
- Vienna, Lourdes
- Shooting time
- April - June 2008
- Funding institutions Austria
- Filminstitut, Filmfonds Wien, Land Niederösterreich
Credits
- Production
- coop 99 filmproduktion G.m.b.H.
- Producer
- Barbara Albert, Martin Gschlacht, Jessica Hausner, Antonin Svoboda
- Director
- Jessica Hausner
- Script
- Jessica Hausner
- DOP
- Martin Gschlacht
- Editor
- Karina Ressler
- Sound engineer
- Uve Haußig
- Costume design
- Tanja Hausner
- Set design
- Katharina Wöppermann
- Cast
- Sylvie Testud (Christine), Léa Seydoux (Maria), Gilette Barbier (Fr. Hartl), Gerhard Liebmann (Pater Nigl), Bruno Todeschini (Kuno)
- Production manager
- Bruno Wagner, Laurence Farenc
- International distribution
- Coproduction Office
- Television investment
- ORF (Film/Fernseh-Abkommen), ARTE France, ZDF/ARTE, TPS Star
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