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"New of the city and the countryside" one says from December 12 on ORF: Then, there are more "crimes against the earth" and "comedies of cities" in the program. "This country can tell incredible stories," ORF Program Director Kathrin Zechner said on Monday, impressed by the five films and looking simultaneously into the future. "I have a great desire to continue this trick."

15:03, 26 November 2018

Four years ago, ORF's first film "Landkrimi" sparkled on screens with "The Woman with the Shoe". And the regional fare seems to have made it to the public. Since then, not only were there all sorts of murders to be solved between Vorarlberg and Burgenland, but the bandwidth also pbaded. In the "comedies of the city" we often laugh, and even in the cinema, as "Harri Pinter, bastard" the previous year had been a great success. Now, Juergen Maurer is allowed to project as an adorable macho KAC's past on television his own charm.

"The book is not out of order," laughed Maurer in a conversation with reporters about the story written by Stefan Hafner and Thomas Weingartner. "It's a comedy for adults who are trying to escape puberty." As a result, there is no intellectual challenge when Harri Pinter, a former ice hockey player and now coach and instructor of the Klagenfurt driving school for under-12s, suddenly leaves his partner. "This fight is conducted in all innocence." In the process, his character is "a little dragged from the ground under his feet". How it will come out will be December 29th.

Thomas Stipsit in the comedy of the same name is also "given" (December 22): based on the novel by Daniel Glattauer, he gives the frustrated and alcoholic journalist Gerold Plbadek, a "WG" aged 14 in St. Pölten Collègues " and professionals come into contact with a series of mysterious gifts.The author was impressed by the end result. "I would not be here," laughed at the question. "Of course, I love the content, but I think it's really well translated, everyone wants his films to be turned into a movie, but almost no one is really happy with the product. "Director Daniel Prochaska's debut marks before everything with a keen sense of timing and all kinds of weird ideas.

Geradliniger, meanwhile, is the prelude to regional cinema: the "roller coaster" (December 12), to which the writer Rupert Henning and the director Wolfgang Murnberger send their main actor, is really a treat. As a corrupt Viennese policeman, whose son is suddenly fired, Tobias Moretti is happy to growl and seize, but also convinces with intermediate nuances. For Murnberger, the father-son relationship is essential, apart from the actions undertaken in the context of the red light and organized crime, because it is "how to give the material an emotional level, it is not enough to turn . " It was exciting for him. To belittle that child he does not want, there are parents who simply can not – and you have to admit it. "

The "Grenzland" (January 15) deals with very social current affairs: Brigitte and Marvin Kren, a mother-son team, were recruited as lead actresses and directors, in the expectation of the murder of a foolish, exhausting debate about asylum and refugees lead. "This is a very nice person, but she has an eccentric and populist point of view," said Brigitte Kren, describing her role as Superintendent, who is investigating the case and not hating her opinion. "At first, I thought: a Funsen as stupid and populist right that I will never play!" But of course, there is not much as it appears at the beginning.

Maria Hofstätter and Miriam Fussenegger were able to let off steam: for the duet, "The Dead in the Lake" (19 December) is already the second case – or more precisely the continuation of the events of "The Dead at the Pool "(2015). "When we said that we had to keep turning, there was already a desire on my part to eat a little more meat on my bones," Hofstätter said. "In the first thriller, we were only investigators, so we just did our job, this time we had a more personal story."

In all cases, the five films have in common the effort of spraying a local color without using worn-out snapshots. Of course, language plays a major role, as Zechner pointed out. "The tincture of speech does not have to be made of rough dialects, although they may be, but they are part of the country's music and each language has its own melody." The film tour was already on its way to South Tyrol and future projects could again cross the border, said the program director. "Maybe in the sense of" live and die in Balaton "."