World Sales
Production Company
Maastrichter Strasse 45
50672 Köln Fax +49 221 8875515 Phone +49 221 8875513 http://www.fruitmarket.de
50672 Köln Fax +49 221 8875515 Phone +49 221 8875513 http://www.fruitmarket.de
Co-Production Company
Lindengasse 32
1070 Wien 07
1070 Wien 07
Cast & Crew
Philipp Jedicke
Max Berner
Max Berner Carina Mergens
Ken Rischard Flora Rajakowitsch
Paul Gallister
Vienna Calling
https://vimeo.com/856724351
Hedonist and nihilist at the same time, the young Viennese artists embody the opposite of self-optimization. They are unadjusted, eccentric characters – and they are filling concert halls not only in Austria, but also in Germany and Switzerland. VIENNA CALLING starts with the aim of being a music documentary. But increasingly, the true protagonist emerges as the city of Vienna itself. Like a flâneur, the camera saunters by day and night through the lanes, bars and casual joints of Vienna, taking diversions, becoming lost only to find its way again.
The strolling rhythm is instigated by the music, performed by Viennese artists and their famous charm or "Schmäh". Part documentary, part staged, interwoven with musical performances, the project gradually reveals itself as a mosaic of eccentricity. VIENNA CALLING digs deep into the catacombs of Viennese culture far from the mainstream. With its many performances and semi-fictional scenes, VIENNA CALLING is not a music documentary in the classic sense of the word, but rather a docu-musical.
The film provides a stage for Viennese artists like the Turkish-Austrian duo EsRAP, who are first generation immigrants, non-binary rap artist Kerosin95, radical feminist authors Stefanie Sargnagel and Lydia Haider, songwriters Voodoo Ju?rgens and Der Nino aus Wien, and many more. VIENNA CALLING is a poetic approximation to the underground scene of an old European metropolis that experiences the current cultural changes and conflicts of our time. Viennese artists take the room they need for their art in a city that becomes increasingly gentrified. VIENNA CALLING is an homage to daring artists, it is about the hardships of creating art and art's need for space and independence.
With: Voodoo Jürgens, Nino Aus Wien, EsRap, Gutlauninger, Kerosin95, Buntspecht a.o.
DIAGONALE
38 DOK.fest Munich – DOK.music
Beyond Borders, Castellorizo island
Unerhört Festival Hamburg
Nancy IFF
Filmfest Osnabrück
FF Cologne
Szemrevaló | Sehenswert, Hungary
Das Filmfest - Festival des deutschsprachigen Films, Czechoslovakia
2024
8 SWR Doku Festival
World Sales
Production Company
Maastrichter Strasse 45
50672 Köln Fax +49 221 8875515 Phone +49 221 8875513 http://www.fruitmarket.de
50672 Köln Fax +49 221 8875515 Phone +49 221 8875513 http://www.fruitmarket.de
Co-Production Company
Lindengasse 32
1070 Wien 07
1070 Wien 07
Cast & Crew
Philipp JedickeArne Birkenstock Bady Minck Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu
Max Berner
Max Berner Carina Mergens
Ken Rischard Flora Rajakowitsch
Paul Gallister
