In the Basement
( Im Keller )

Ulrich Seidl
2014 - 80 min - Couleur - Autriche

The film is about people and their obsessions. The film is about basements and what people do in them in their free time. The film is about brass-band music and opera arias, expensive furniture and cheap men’s jokes, sexuality and sadism, fitness and fascism, whips and dolls, snakes and guns, love and the longing for love. "Im Keller" is a film essay and Ulrich Seidl’s return to the documentary form after his wide-ranging "Paradies trilogy". Using the film tableaux so typical of Ulrich Seidl, "Im Keller" explores the underground of the Austrian soul.

Population | Sexe | Société | Autriche


Author-Director : Ulrich Seidl
Author : Veronika Franz
Photography : Martin Gschlacht
Sound : Ekkehart Baumung
Editing : Christof Schertenleib, Andrea Wagner
Delegate Producer : Ulrich Seidl Film Produktion GmbH
Co-producer : MMKmedia GmbH
Co-producer : coop99 filmproduktion G.m.b.H.
Broadcasting Co-producer : ORF (Österreichischer Rundfunk)
Contribution : Filminstitut, Filmfonds Wien, Land Niederösterreich

Distribution


Distributor : Ulrich Seidl Film Produktion GmbH
Distributor : Stadtkino, Neue Visionen Filmverleih, Damned Films

Distinctions

2014 - Mostra Internationale d'Arte Cinematografica di Venezia, Venise (Italie) : hors competition
2014 - DOK Leipzig - International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film, Leipzig (Allemagne) : Sélection
2014 - FNC - Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, Montréal (Canada) : Séance spéciale