Film Archive

Blue Moon

Variety Critics’ Choice: Europe Now! 2003 / Blue Moon / Austria 2002

Engaging road movie in which two smalltime crooks and a mysterious blonde
bounce around from Slovakia to Ukraine.

Synopsis

Two smalltime crooks and an enigmatic Ukrainian looker bounce around in the uncertain world of post-communist Central Europe in Blue Moon, a highly engaging character-comedy which delivers emotionally in the final reels. Terrific casting of the three leads - popular Austrian standup comic Josef Hader, outre German comedian-helmer Detlev W. Buck, plus Ukrainian knockout Viktoria Malektorovych - raise this road movie-cum-offbeat love story several notches above the norm, coaxed along by sympathetic direction from first-timer Andrea Maria Dusl. Much of the film´s emotional clout is due to the actors themsleves, who flesh out often sketchily drawn roles against believable backgrounds shot in actual locations (Austria, Slovakia, Ukraine).
Derek Elley

About the film

90 min / Color, 35 mm

Director Andrea Maria Dusl / Screenplay Andrea Maria Dusl / Dir. of Photography Wolfgang Thaler / Music Christian Fennesz, Peter Dusl, Yuri Naumov / Editor Karina Ressler, Andrea Wagner / Producer Erich Lackner / Production Lotus-Film GmbH / Cast Josef Hader, Viktoria Malektorovych, Detlev W. Buck, Ivan Laca, Peter Aczel, Andrea Karnasova, Emöke Vinczeová, Orest Ogorodnik / Contact Lotus Film GmbH, First Hand Films GmbH, Austrian Films
www: www.blue-moon.cc

Contacts

Lotus Film GmbH
Mollardgasse 85a, Stiege 1, 1060, Vienna
Austria
Phone: +43 1 786 33 87
Fax: +43 1 786 338 711
E-mail: [email protected]

First Hand Films GmbH
Neunbrunnenstraße 50, CH - 8050, Zürich
Switzerland
Phone: +41 443 122 060
Fax: +41 443 122 080
E-mail: [email protected]

Austrian Films
Stiftgasse 6, 1070, Vienna
Austria
Phone: +43 152 633 23
E-mail: [email protected]

Guests

Martin Schweighofer
Film Institution Rep.

Andrea Maria Dusl

Anne Laurent-Delage
Film Institution Rep.