In her novel The Children of the Dead, Elfriede Jelinek allows the deceased to rise again – even those with swastikas and yellow stars usually easily and gladly forgotten by official history logbooks. Using amateur actors and Super 8 film in the original Styrian settings, the directorial duo from the Nature Theater of Oklahoma created a blend of literature, performance and cinema, where the grotesque and the ridiculous triumph, allowing the viewer to be immersed in the universe of the text, while escaping from its whirlpool at the same time.
Die Kinder der Toten
Die Kinder der Toten
60th TIFF: Greek Premiere
Screening Schedule
No physical screenings scheduled. |
- Direction: Kelly Copper & Pavol Liska
- Script: Kelly Copper & Pavol Liska
- Cinematography: Kelly Copper & Pavol Liska
- Editing: Kelly Copper & Pavol Liska, Michael Palm
- Sound: David Almeida-Ribeiro
- Music: Wolfgang Mitterer
- Actors: Andrea Maier, Greta Kostka, Klaus Unterrieder, Georg Beyer
- Production: Ulrich Seidl Filmproduktion
- Producers: Ulrich Seidl, Georg Aschauer, Claus Philipp
- Format: DCP
- Color: Color
- Production Country: Austria
- Production Year: 2019
- Duration: 90΄
- Contact: Austrian Films, office@afc.at
- Awards/Distinctions: FIPRESCI Prize – Berlin IFF 2019, Grand Prize Avant-Garde & Genre – BAFICI 2019
Kelly Copper
In 2006, Pavol Liška and Kelly Copper founded the theater company Nature Theater of Oklahoma. The company is committed to “making the work they don't know how to make,” an approach yielding new amalgams of opera, dance, cinema, and theater, combined with popular culture and quirky humor. Die Kinder Der Toten is the duo’s first motion picture.
Filmography
2019 Die Kinder der Toten
Pavol Liska
In 2006, Pavol Liška and Kelly Copper founded the theater company Nature Theater of Oklahoma. The company is committed to “making the work they don't know how to make,” an approach yielding new amalgams of opera, dance, cinema, and theater, combined with popular culture and quirky humor. Die Kinder Der Toten is the duo’s first motion picture.
Filmography
2019 Die Kinder der Toten
