Breathing
Atmen
Austria
2011
93 Min
Color
2.35:1
German
Synopsis
Roman Kogler, 18, is serving time in a juvenile detention center. He has already served half of his sentence, and could be released on probation, but his chances are poor: he doesn’t have family, and seems incapable of coping with society. After many failed attempts, Roman finds a probation job at the municipal morgue in Vienna. One day, Roman is faced with a dead woman who bears his family name. Even though it soon turns out that she is not his mother, Roman wonders about his past for the first time and starts looking for his mother. –Quinzaine des Réalisateurs
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Karl Markovics
Born 29. August 1963 in Vienna (Austria), he is a respected stage actor, appearing in many theater plays and musicals. He starred as Salomon Sorowitsch in Stefan Ruzowitzky’s 2007 film The Counterfeiters, which was awarded the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and more recently in the film Unknown Identity. Breathing is his first feature film as a writer and director. –Quinzaine des Réalisateurs
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Carlos Filipe Freitas
26Nov12
A director to keep an eye on. Review and rating: http://alwayswatchgoodmovies.blogspot.com/2012/06/breathing-2011.html
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By David Hudson on May 20, 2011
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By Twitchfilm.com on February 28, 2012
Winner of the Best European Film award in the Director’s Fortnight selection at Cannes 2011, Karl Markovics’ Breathing arrives on UK screens in April.Roman Kogler (Thomas Schubert) is 19 years old and
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By Twitchfilm.com on November 28, 2011
A young man desperately in need of a purpose ends up taking a job dealing with the recently deceased, collecting the dead and making them look the best they can for their final journey – in the course
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Life and death and being 19
By Michael Harbour on February 13, 2012
A first film written and directed by the star of the excellent “The Counterfeiters”, “Atmen” could have been another movie about the redemptive power of caring for the dead. But it isn’t, though there… read review
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