The film follows a teacher who seeks to marry an Asian woman because he has been disappointed by Austrian women. He finds, questions and talks to men who have found and married mail-order brides from Thailand and the Philippines. Ulrich Seidl's first work for television, The Last Men was an unexpected ratings hit.
Austria 1994 | 60 min | German | Beta SP, DigiBeta
Director: Ulrich Seidl | Camera: Peter Zeitlinger | Editor: Peter Zeitlinger | Sound: Ekkehart Baumung | Editing and Music: Walter Andreas Christen | Producer: Erich Lackner | Cast: Karl Schwingenschlögl, Families Hausmann, Klausner, Krieger, Rausch and Schmid
Production company: LOTUS FILM GmbH | Mollardgasse 85a, Stiege 1 | 1060 Vienna, Austria
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"True and invented, fictional and private blend together here, too, in this so-called documentary film. While the letters from the Filipino woman that the protagonist, Karl Schwingenschlögl, reads aloud in the film, are indeed authentic and were written to him, what the film asserts as the present - the visit of the Filipino woman to Vienna and later her departure - took place well in the past, before the film was shot. In real life Schwingenschlögl has since married a Hungarian woman who wanted to meet him because she had seen the film. They have a son, who is now a grown man, and who as a postman delivers my mail to my house in Vienna." – Ulrich Seidl
Festivals
Festival Interntional du Documentaire de Marseille, IDFA Amsterdam, Duisburger Filmwoche, Visions du Réel Nyon, Internationale Hofer Filmtage, Karlovy Vary IFF, Diagonale 1995
Pressphotos: 15x10cm / 300dpi / jpg / ca. 500kb
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