Ein Wirkliches Leben Hinter Dem Balkon oder Ein Abseilen von Romeo und Julia.
- Alternative title
- Real Life Behind the Balcony or, Romeo and Juliet Make Their Getaway
- Synopsis
- Documentary film by Carla Degenhardt and Barbara Unger-Wiplinger offering impressions from the staged everyday life of protagonist Hiltraud Schmidt, a sufferer from a neurological disease and her partner, Franz Bittermann. The two talk about how they got to know each other and their current relationship. Franz does this primarily through speech and body language, and sometimes functioning as an extended mouthpiece, while Hiltraud, lovingly called princess, has been trained to articulate by means of gesture and physical activities such as painting or playing the piano.
In a society in which illness has only negative connotations and is associated with suffering or defects, this film makes physical dysfunction visible without putting it on display, with a gentle touch of fun. (Dietmar Schwärzler for Austrian INdependent Database) - Language
- German (Austria)
- Country
- Austria
- Medium
- Film; Video
- Technical information
- Black-and-white / Sound
- Year of release
- 2005
- Duration
- 45 mins
Credits
- Director
- Carla Degenhardt
- Cinematographer
- Carla Degenhardt
- Editor
- Barbara Unger-Wiplinger; Carla Degenhardt
- Music
- Franz Bittermann; Hiltraud Schmidt; Roithauma Buschbuam Combo
- Cast
Franz Bittermann Romeo Hiltraud Schmidt Juliet
Additional Details
- Theatre
- Schauspielhaus Wien
- Production type
- Documentary/Educational/News
- Plays
- Romeo and Juliet
- Subjects
- Film studies
- Keywords
- documentary films; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
Notes
- History
- Realised as part of the project "shake out shakespeare" at Schauspielhaus Wien / Vienna Theatre 2005.
- Reviews
- Source: Austrian Independent Film and Video Database http://www.filmvideo.at/filmdb_display.php?id=1485&len=en (accessed 4/2012)
Sponsor
- Name
Schauspielhaus Wien
- Web
- http://www.schauspielhaus.at/ External site opens in new window
- Address
- Porzellangasse 19
1090 Vienna, Austria
01 3170101
Distributor
- Name
Sixpackfilm
- office@sixpackfilm.com
- Web
- http://www.sixpackfilm.com External site opens in new window
- Phone
- +43/1/526 09 90
- Fax
- +43/1/526 09 92
- Address
- Neubaugasse 45/13
Vienna
1070
Austria
How to cite this record
Shakespeare, "Ein Wirkliches Leben Hinter Dem Balkon oder Ein Abseilen von Romeo und Julia.". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/shakespeare/search/index.php/title/av73970 (Accessed 26 Nov 2024)