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TAGE  (DAYS)

Austria 2019 - 2022 / 4K - DCP / color and black and white / 1:2,39 / 3.1 mono / running time: 230 min. (25f/s)

english subtitled / additional cinematography (black and white): Leo Schreiner (Vienna), Zakaria Mohamed Ali (Rome) /

cast: Maria Schreiner, Peter Schreiner, Zakaria Mohamed Ali and many others / artistic collaboration: Maria Schreiner, Zakaria Mohamed Ali,

Leo Schreiner / realisation, cinematography, editing, production: Peter Schreiner

this film was completed without state film funding

project development sponsored by Federal Ministry Republic of Austria / Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport

world distribution:  echt.zeit.film

World-Premiere:
International Film Festival Rotterdam  /  The Netherlands

cinema of intimacy

While working on a film called Cinematic Letters, IFFR stalwart Peter Schreiner was diagnosed with cancer. Although the project was terminated for being logistically too demanding, his desire to make a new film remained. But what can you do when your beloved camera and tripod have become too heavy for you to carry, and setting up even a simple scene is an exhausting ordeal? 

Tage is not a memoir of Schreiner's battle with his illness – this is merely hinted at, almost obliquely. Schreiner considered his ailing body above all an artistic challenge: What is possible, what can be developed from the set of options and perspectives such a state of being offers?

Curiously enough, Tage turned into a variation of his last finished film, Garten (2019): a chamber piece shot almost exclusively in his house, featuring himself and his beloved wife Maria as well as some friends. It is also a return to a cinema of intimacy that he'd last essayed with Kinderfilm (1985). With all of that, Schreiner strove for and reached yet another level of artistic freedom with Tage, for none of his works to date are as light-footed in their movement: pure stream-of-conscious in a diaristic framework – a film as open as Schreiner's restlessly searching soul and endlessly curious heart.

Olaf Möller / International Filmfestival Rotterdam 2023

cinematography and editing

Peter Schreiner

additional cinematography (black and white)

Leo Schreiner (Vienna), Zakaria Mohamed Ali (Rome)

grading / effects / sound / soundmix

Peter Schreiner

system supervision

Leo Schreiner

subtitles / translation:   

Isabella Schreiner, Maria Schreiner

with

Maria Schreiner, Peter Schreiner, Zakaria Mohamed Ali.

Isabella Schreiner, Julia Hofer, Christian Ronge, Paul Schreiner, Michael Pilz, Susanne Schreiner, Mariya Schreiner,

Aleksander Georgiev, Katina Georgieva, Leo Schreiner, Giuliana Pachner, Annemarie Zottl, Marie Lechner, Anna Gasser,

Andreas Stern, Christine Mills, Monika Mills, Michael Mills, Olivia Kratky, Christa Füby, Stefan Füby, Renate Brunner,

Olaf Möller, Irene Schwarz, Nadine Poscoleri-Kegele, Alba Poscoleri-Kegele, Michael Poscoleri-Kegele,

Marc Nairz-Federspiel, Stefan Federspiel, Annemarie Zottl, Ulrike Aigner, Berta Steinwender, Konrad Spindler,

Evelyn Spindler, Mariam Farhang, Sebastian Bobik, Anatol Boesch, Oskar Boesch, Susi Boesch, Emanuel Boesch,

Bärbel Neubauer, Maria Larisa Okeke, Cosmas Okeke, Maya Okeke, Stefanie Okeke, Alexander Okeke

film extracts in the background

Auf dem Weg (own work), 夢 Yume (Akira Kuosawa), Smultronstället (Ingmar Bergman), Erste Liebe (own work),

Kinderfilm (own work), Bellavista (own work), Fata Morgana (own work), Auf dem Weg (own work),

Tystnaden (Ingmar Bergman), Sommer 1991 (Maria Schreiner), Lampedusa (own work),

Dieser Film ist eine Skizze (Sebastian Bobik), 影武者 Kagemusha (Akira Kurosawa)

thanks to

Sebastian Bobik

text citations

Paul Celan, from: Atemwende / Friedrich Hölderin, from: Hälfte des Lebens /

Nadine Kegele, from: Und essen werden wir die Katze / Friederike Mayröcker, from: Gesammelte Gedichte 1939-2003 /

Michel de Montaigne, from: Essaies / Pier Paolo Pasolini, from: Ketzererfahrungen /

Giuseppe Ungaretti, from: L'allegria / Elio Vittorini, from: Gespräch in Sizilien

thanks to

Nadine Poscoleri-Kegele

production

Peter Schreiner - echt.zeit.film

thanks to

Leo Schreiner, Isabella Schreiner, Paul Schreiner

artistic collaboration

Maria Schreiner, Zakaria Mohamed Ali

realisation

Peter Schreiner

special thanks to

Leo Schreiner, Ludwig Wüst, Olaf Möller

this film was completed without state film funding

project development sponsored by Federal Ministry Republic of Austria / Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport

world distribution:  echt.zeit.film

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