Austrian documentaries steal the show this week
Austrian documentaries take pride of place among today’s seven new releases.
Films hitting screens include Hafner’s Paradise by Günter Schwaiger, the Madrid-based director originally from Salzburg. This Austrian/Spanish co-production, screened at the Locarno Film Festival, among others, and lauded at Valladolid, tells the story of a former Nazi who arrives in Francoist Spain. The seemingly harmless old man still fills with pride at the Nazi salute and denies the Holocaust.
Austrian audiences will also have the chance to discover Fun Fatal, by Thomas Fasching and Jan Wagner (who is also producing the film), a documentary about skiing, tourism and consumerist society.
Stadtkino are releasing Christian Petzold’s Berlinale prize-winning German film Yella [+see also:
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The other European title hitting screens this week is Swiss film Someone Beside You by Edgar Hagen, distributed by Polyfilm.
(Translated from French)
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