Good News
Good News: Von Kolporteuren, toten Hunden und anderen Wienern
Austria
1990
130 Min
Color
1.66:1
German
Synopsis
Ulrich Seidl’s documentary debut is about the foreigners who sell newspapers in their red uniforms on the streets of Vienna. A comparison between the world of the foreigner selling the newspaper and the Austrian who reads it in his living room. "I didn’t want to make a movie, which uncovers the methods of the newspaper publishers, not a movie which makes you feel sorry for the newspaper sellers, and also not a film which talks about the good and the evil. I wanted to make a movie, which observes foreign world in our own country.” (Ulrich Seidl) —shop.orf.at
Director
Ulrich Seidl
Ulrich Seidl was born in Vienna in 1952 and grew up in the town of Horn in Lower Austria. He studied journalism, art history and drama in Vienna, supporting himself with odd jobs, before entering the prestigious Vienna Film Academy at the age of 26. In 1980 he made his first documentary, Einsvierzig. Following the controversy surrounding his second film, Der Ball (1982) – a wickedly satirical portrait of the graduation ball in his home town – Seidl was asked to leave the Film Academy. In 1990 he returned to the scene with the feature-length documentary Good News. Within the decade Seidl was to make seven more documentaries for cinema and television, winning much acclaim and many prizes for his work.
Hundstage – Dog Days, his first fiction film, was released in 2001 and won several important awards, beginning with the grand jury prize at the Venice Film Festival in 2001. The same year also saw the release of Zur Lage / State of… read more
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