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Marc Rollinger

Actor

Films

Naked Opera

Naked Opera

By Angela Christlieb

2013 | 81 min | Documentary

The documentary accompanies the living man Marc on his travels around the world to staging his favorite operas – and inspired by it, in search of joie de vivre and love. Marc is talented, intelligent, eloquent and wealthy but has suffered from an incurable illness from childhood. On the tracks of Don Giovanni he is permanently on the lookout for the perfect staging for his life and the perfect production of his favorite opera. Each weekend he escapes his everyday life by traveling the world in search ...

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Backstage Vienna State Opera

Backstage Vienna State Opera

2019 | 96 min | Documentary

The film focuses on the employees behind, next to and underneath the stage who keep the huge, complex operation going. And there’s a considerable number of them. This in-depth survey of their work gives viewers an idea of everything that’s necessary for productions to be successful and to run smoothly. The opera house enjoys an excellent reputation -performances take place every day of the year except at Christmas and on Good Friday, and an impressive 99% of its seats are sold.

Sacred Games

Sacred Games

2022 | 72 min | Documentary

Johann Sebastian Bach is not only one of the greatest composers of all time, but perhaps also the most mysterious. Who was this inconspicuous man from Thuringia, whose music still deeply touches people from all over the world? The film follows the traces of this exceptional artist at original locations and tries to describe a life that succeeded in an admirable way to transform crises and painful losses into beauty and new creativity again and again: Music as the Art of Transformation and Healing. "Overall, ...

Unmensch

Unmensch

2016 | 26 min | Drama

In Jasmin Baumgartner's short film, three young actors take part in an experimental play called 'Youth Sucks' at the Vienna Theater. The situation quickly becomes explosive. The main actor is supposed to improvise a monologue that comes across as left-liberal self-abuse of a politically impotent young generation pretending to care about the world. While the ensemble members Dany (Jasna Fritzi Bauer) and Patrick (Dominik Brauweiler) perform appropriately with emotion and expression, Jasper (Daniel ...

Lifetimeshort

Lifetimeshort

2009 | 87 min | Comedy

Theater director Gesine Danckwart's feature debut LIFETIMESHORT is an ironic comedy about Berlin big city girls and how they cope with life and love in a late capitalist urban setting. ACHTUNG BERLIN 2009 Danckwart contrasts the women's tumultuous lives against a backdrop of cool, almost clinical-looking Berlin architecture. The city becomes another character in the story. Danckwart collaborated with her six actresses over the course of a year to develop the film's situations and dialogue. The result ...

Lucky Devils

Lucky Devils

2013 | 95 min | Music, Dance, Theater

In St. Petersburg, 8,500 children live on the streets, but the innovative circus Upsala and its director Larissa give some of those children a chance to forget their hardships. The heartwarming documentary LUCKY DEVILS by Verena Endtner portrays day to day life in the circus and takes us on a journey from the Russian slums to the big top’s lights and the joys of a tour to Switzerland. LUCKY DEVILS portrays the half-orphan Danja, who discovers the pleasure of playing and performing, the street ...

Freakstars 3000

Freakstars 3000

2003 | 75 min | Independent

The TV series became a film: an idosyncratic combination of disability, pop, and style. Christoph Schlingensief dared to walk a delicate tightrope of social criticism and exploitation with this casting show satire, which exposes the cynical casting format to the cringe point. Singing, dancing, air guitar - two dozen contestants were put through a casting competition under the eyes of a 'merciless jury'. "The freak is the situation itself, which forces us to distinguish what is normal and what ...

Eleven Uncles

Eleven Uncles

2010 | 101 min | Independent

It was shot without a budget in just seven days at a Brandenburg country estate using props and costumes provided by various theaters. Among the outstanding ensemble actors participating are Alexander Khuon, Alexander Scheer, Jule Böwe and Adolfo Assor. "A "Hamlet" adaptation that looks as if Herbert Achternbusch and Luis Buñuel had shot it together on LSD and then transformed it with all the finesses of digital image editing into a psychedelic trip that alternately causes giddiness, laughter, ...

Unplugged Leben: Guaia Guaia

Unplugged Leben: Guaia Guaia

2013 | 92 min | Documentary

Elias Gottstein and Carl Luis Zielke have no permanent residence, no formal training, no bank account, no personal savings. Instead, they live their dream of freedom: radical, anarchic, unplugged! They are young, intelligent, and hungry: for life, for music, for a future far from the average imagination. It is the portrait of two young men who do not want to accept the label male, unemployed, East German. Instead they go their own way.

Interruption

Interruption

2015 | 111 min | Drama

INTERRUPTION is the postmodern theatre adaptation of the classical Greek tragedy Orestie by Aeschylus about power, revenge and the concept of law and justice. The film was inspired by real events. In 2002, Chechen separatists took 850 people hostage at the Dubrovka Theatre in Moscow. The audience initially thought the hostage-taking was part of the play. "Interruption is one of the most intelligent films I've seen lately and Yorgos Zois is without doubt one of the most original voices in European ...

Bright Night

Bright Night

2014 | 83 min | Horror

Two couples - Anna and Stefan, Bernd and Marc - want to spend a quiet weekend in the countryside but it doesn't go quite as planned. Anna experiences how first her perfectly planned life and then her boyfriend slip away from her. Anna and Bernd are haunted by nightmares, realities begin to shift. On top of that, Stefan is attracted by the polyamorous relationship of the two other men.