Krieg in Wien
Ulrich Seidl, Michael Glawogger / AT, 1989 / 84 min.
In Vienna, everything is calm, clean and proper. But what if you intersperse this everyday business-as-usual with footage of catastrophes from the global news? Krieg in Wien is a collaboration by two critical Austrian filmmakers: Ulrich Seidl and Michael Glawogger.
Glawogger and Seidl spent four days filming everyday life in Vienna. Children are born, people die, an older woman stumbles around her modest apartment, where she sees to be completely happy. In the Austrian capital, it’s life-as-usual; the Viennese seem content, and the city looks spotless.
But how does the picture change if you intersperse the documentary footage of the smooth mundanity of the Austrian capital with footage from 24-hour world news, with a focus on catastrophes, war and all the other things that could rudely disrupt the comfortable lives of the good burghers of Central Europe?
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Director
Ulrich Seidl, Michael Glawogger
Production year
1989
Country
AT
Original title
Krieg in Wien
Length
84 min.
Language
German, English
Subtitles
ENG
Part of
Ulrich Seidl
Eye Filmmuseum presents Ulrich Seidl – Über das Leben, die Liebe und den Tod, the first exhibition – and the first complete film overview – of the renowned Austrian filmmaker in the Netherlands. Featuring a wealth of early, little-known and newly commissioned (film) works, the exhibition confronts visitors with the lives of a number of seemingly ordinary individuals, people who try to, in their own ways, make something of life in a late-capitalist society in which meaning has been replaced by consumerism.
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