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Section: Austrian Trip
Breathing (2011)
Roman Kogler (19) has lived all his life in institutions. Abandoned by his mother as a young child and raised in an orphanage, he is now serving time in a juvenile detention centre having accidentally killed a boy his own age in a brawl. When threatened with life behind bars unless he finds a job and sticks to it, he finds a probation job shifting dead bodies at the municipal morgue. When Roman one day is faced with a dead woman who bears his family name, it occurs to him that this may be the mother who gave him up for adoption and he begins to explore his past.
| Country | Austria |
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| Year | 2011 |
| Duration | 90 min |
| Rating | 15 |
| Language | German |
| Subtitle | Czech, English |
| Directed by | Karl Markovics |
| Screenplay | Karl Markovics |
| Director of Photography | Martin Gschlacht |
| Music | Herbert Tucmandl |
| Edited by | Alarich Lenz |
| Contact | Epo-Film Produktion GmbH |
Biography
Actor and director. He has played a number of roles in theaters, musicals and films - e.g. TV series Inspector Rex (1994), The Counterfeiters (Die Fälscher, 2007) and The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014). He debuted as a director with the feature films Breathing (Atmen, 2011) and Superworld (Superwelt, 2015).