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Markus Schleinzer

Markus Schleinzer was born in Vienna in 1971. From 1994 to 2010 he worked as a casting director and was engaged in the production of approximately 70 feature films, including several films by Jessica Hausner, Ulrich Seidl and Michael Haneke. In 2008, working as a casting director on Haneke’s The White Ribbon, he was given the chance to train the child-actors, to prepare scenes and work with them on set, in front of the camera. Out of this experience he decided to try his own luck as a filmmaker. Michael is his provocative feature film debut as director and scriptwriter. Schleinzer is also working as a theatre and film actor himself.

Filmography

2011 Michael
2018 Angelo

Angelo

In the early 18th century, a boy from Africa is sold in Europe as a slave, he grows up in the circles of a countess who turns him into the object of an “ennoblement” experiment, until he ends up in the salons of a noble who forces him to perform stories about his exotic homeland, wearing a costume – a Scheherazade in charge of amusing high society’s ennui. His skin (and its color) will become the physical limit that separates him from his true love, but also the surface where discourses of exclusion and acceptance, memory and silence, and the genealogy of modern slavery will be inscribed.

Screening Schedule

No scheduled screenings.

Direction: Markus Schleinzer

Script: Markus Schleinzer, Alexander Brom

Cinematography: Gerald Kerkletz

Editing: Pia Dumont

Sound: Pia Dumont, Philippe Kohn

Actors: Makita Samba, Alba Rohrwacher, Larisa Faber, Kenny Nzogang, Lukas Miko, Gerti Drassl, Michael Rotschopf, Jean-Baptiste Tiémélé, Nancy Mensah-Offei, Olivier Baume, Martine Schambacher, Anne Klein, Jean-Michel Larré, Pierre Bodry, Marisa Growaldt, Christian Friedel

Production: Novotny & Novotny Filmproduktion, Amour Fou Luxembourg,

Producer/Producers: Alexander Glehr, Franz Novotny, Bady Minck, Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu, Markus Schleinzer

Art Direction: Andreas Sobotka, Martin Reiter

Costumes: Tanja Hausner

Executive producer: Johanna Scherz

Camera: Andi Winter, Lukas Allmaier, Thomas Maier

Make Up: Anette Keiser

Format: DCP

Color: Color

Production Country: Austria, Luxembourg

Production Year: 2018

Duration: 110΄