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Section: Austrian Trip

Breathing (2011) 15

Austria | 2011 | 90 min.

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.

CountryAustria
Year2011
Duration90 min
Rating15
LanguageGerman
SubtitleCzech, 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).

Relationships, Youth, Crime, Drama, Psychology

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