Notes from the Underworld
( Aufzeichnungen aus der Unterwelt )

Tizza Covi, Rainer Frimmel
2020 - 115 min - 16 mm - Noir & Blanc - Autriche

There is unrest in the milieu of the Viennese underworld of the sixties. In a controversial trial the singer Kurt Girk and his legendary friend Alois have to pay for their proximity to the illegal card game "Stoss" with long prison sentences.
The charismatic protagonists tell us about this time from a perspective never shown before.
A love letter to a past Vienna that is also a social portrait of post-war Austria.



Author-Director : Tizza Covi, Rainer Frimmel
Photography : Rainer Frimmel
Sound : Tizza Covi
Editing : Tizza Covi
Delegate Producer : Vento Film

Distribution


Distributor : AFC - Austrian Film

Distinctions

2021 - États généraux du film documentaire, Lussas (France) : Sélection
2020 - Festival international du film de Berlin - Berlinale, Berlin (Allemagne) : Mention spéciale du Meilleur documentaire
2020 - Cinéma du réel, Paris (France) : Séance spéciale
2020 - Viennale - Vienna International Film Festival, Vienne (Autriche) : Sélection