Archive of films Lillian / Lillian
Austria
2019, 128 min
Section:
Another View
Year: 2019
After missing her chance to leave the United States in the proper manner, Lillian decides to return to her native Russia on foot – from New York, across the entire continent. This remarkable observational piece, which lulls the audience like a slowly advancing horizon, dispenses with the usual dramatic approaches in order to sketch a pilgrimage across the vast landscape. And the mere absence of society’s watchful eye can lead to happiness.
Synopsis
This investigation of a person’s absolute liberation – unexpected despite coming on so slowly – might have ended with a shot of the iconic New York skyline. But that's how worldly-wise Austrian documentarist Andreas Horvath symbolically opens his feature debut. After missing her chance to leave the United States in the proper manner, and after desperate attempts at landing even the most demeaning of jobs, Lillian decides to return to her native Russia on foot – across the entire continent, from east to west. This remarkable observational piece, which lulls the audience like a slowly advancing horizon, dispenses with the usual dramatic approaches in order to sketch a pilgrimage across the vast landscape. And the mere absence of society’s watchful eye can lead to happiness.
Martin Horyna
About the director
Andreas Horvath (b. 1968, Salzburg, Austria). Selected filmography: This Ain’t No Heartland (2004, doc.), Views of a Retired Night Porter (2006, short doc., Best Documentary Film Under 30 Minutes at the 41st KVIFF), Arab Attraction (2010, doc.), Earth’s Golden Playground (2013, doc.), Helmut Berger, Actor (2015, doc.), Lillian (2019)
Contacts
Cercamon
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About the film
Color, DCP
Section: | Another View |
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Director: | Andreas Horvath |
Screenplay: | Andreas Horvath |
Dir. of Photography: | Andreas Horvath, Sonja Aufderklamm |
Music: | Andreas Horvath |
Editor: | Michael Palm, Andreas Horvath |
Art Director: | Louis Oellerer |
Producer: | Ulrich Seidl |
Production: | Ulrich Seidl FilmProduktion |
Cast: | Patrycja Płanik |
Sales: | Cercamon |
Guests
Andreas Horvath
Film Director / Producer
Patrycja Płanik
Actress
Martin Schweighofer
Film Institution Rep.
Karina Korenblum
Sales Agent
Ivan Shvedoff
Other, Tutor / Trainer