Archive of films New World / Neue Welt

Austria
2005, 103 min

Section: Documentary Films - Competition
Year: 2005

This nostalgic road movie through the territories of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire is built upon the juxtaposition of archive footage and photographs with contemporary shots of the same places; news read from period local press serves as the narration.


Synopsis

A nostalgic road movie that wanders from country to country, town to town, from old times to new, through the greater part of central Europe, territory that for nearly four hundred years boasted the name Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. Documentarist Paul Rosdy set out on a trip from Sarajevo to Vienna and on to Romania, from Trieste to the Bay of Kotor, across the Hungarian puszta and on to Ukraine. Using music, stories, anecdotes and legends, travel guides and newspaper clippings from the turn of the 20th century, Rosdy has created a fascinating journey through time built upon the juxtaposition of archive footage and photographs with contemporary shots of the same places. Great historical moments are overshadowed by ordinary life, everyday events and simple pleasures, like the singing of Gipsy musicians in Hungary or forest workers taking their meals together in Romania’s snow covered Carpathian mountains.

About the director

Paul Rosdy

Paul Rosdy (Vienna) has been involved exclusively in film since 1990, though before that he worked at other jobs, including a stint as a tour guide. He studied filmmaking in Vancouver, Canada and then produced short documentaries and educational programs in Austria, Canada and the United States. In 1994 he and Joan Grossman founded Pinball Films, under whose auspices they shot the feature-length documentary The Port of Last Resort, which focuses on the little-known story of 20,000 European Jews who fled Nazism for Shanghai. Rosdy began working on New World in 1999. Filmography: You Don’t Look for Street Signs When You’re in a Jungle (1991), Release Day (1992), Matzo Balls (1994), The Port of Last Resort (1998), New World (2005).

Contacts

Rosdy Film KEG
Lustkandlgasse 51/4-5, A-1090, Vienna
Austria
Tel: +43 1 319 81 42
Fax: +43 1 319 81 42
E-mail: [email protected]
www: www.rosdyfilm.com

About the film

Color, 35 mm
World premiere

Section: Documentary Films - Competition
   
Director: Paul Rosdy
Screenplay: Paul Rosdy
Dir. of Photography: Robert Winkler
Editor: Paul Rosdy
Producer: Paul Rosdy
Production: Rosdy Film KEG
Contact: Rosdy Film KEG
   
www: www.rosdyfilm.com

Guests

Anne Laurent - Delage

Film Institution Rep.

Paul Rosdy

Film Director


Robert Winkler

Director of Photography

Wolfram Wuinovic

Director of Photography


Laszlo Bakos

Producer

Vitali Bodnar

Film Crew


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