AT 1977–84, D Elfriede Irrall, C Elfriede Irrall, Olaf Scheuring, Merve Lowien, M Ulle Zeilfelder, Sorgenhobel, Print colour, DCP from Super-8, 105 min, german OV +engl. SUB, Österreichisches Filmmuseum
„But why would anyone be interested in my life? Countless other people had similar ones.“ As actress Elfriede Irrall tells her mother she would like to make a film about her in 1977, the latter is sceptical at first, but soon warms to the idea of having a conversation in front of the camera. In an astonishingly open manner, Irrall’s mother speaks of her life in Vienna, of National Socialism, of the constraints of family and the desire for liberation, of love and sexuality. Irrall comes up with associative and poetic imagery – gestures drawn from everyday life, places of remembrance, family photographs – to accompany this narrative, creating a multi-layered work in the process, one whose brisance and relevance to our own age are incomparable. (Katharina Müller, Stefanie Zingl, 2019)
| Acronyms | |
|---|---|
| amer. | American English |
| b/w | Black and white |
| OV | Original version |
| SUB | Subtitles |
| +SUB | electronic live subtitling (below the image) |
| INT | Intertitles |
| Countries | |
|---|---|
| AT | Austria |
| FRG | Federal Republic of Germany (historic) |
| BLR | Belarus |
| DE | Germany |
| CAN | Canada |
| GDR | German Democratic Republic (historic) |
| EGY | Egypt |
| FR | France |
| GB | Great Britain |
| URY | Uruguay |
| BRA | Brasil |
| SWE | Sweden |
| UKR | Ukraine |
| PL | Poland |
| IDN | Indonesia |
| PRT | Portugal |
| HRV | Croatia |
| ECU | Ecuador |
| HUN | Hungary |
| AUS | Australia |
| IT | Italy |
| MEX | Mexico |
| IND | India |
Followed by a conversation with Stefanie Zingl (Österreichisches Filmmuseum) and Ulle Zeilfelder
Stefanie Zingl is a filmscholar and film archivist at the Austrian Film Museum and the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Digital History. She studied film studies and art history at the University of Vienna and the University of Havana, Cuba.
Her research interest is in amateur culture with a focus on oral history interviews. She organizes Home Movie Days, is active as a curator and gives lectures on non-industrial film practice.
Ulle Zeilfelder (*1950) studied Political Science and Composition in Berlin. For 14 years she worked as a teacher in schools of general education in Berlin. Simultaneously and afterwards she worked on texts and compositions i.a. for theatre and film. In the context of the chilean solidarity movement 1974 she got to know actress Elfriede Irrall, with whom she amicably collaborated for many years. In 1981, Irrall, Zeilfelder and Olaf Scheuring founded the „theatergruppe spielwerk“. They collectively developed severals plays such as „Liebe ist“ after Christa Wolfs Kassandra. In 1982/83 Zeilfelder composed the music for Irralls film UMS FREIWERDEN HÄTTE ES JA GEHEN SOLLEN.
