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Ulrich Seidl is a Director, Scriptwriter and Producer Autrichien born on 24 november 1952 at Vienna (Austria)

Ulrich Seidl

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Nationality Austria
Birth 24 november 1952 (71 years) at Vienna (Austria)

Ulrich Seidl (born 24 November 1952) is an Austrian film director, writer and producer. In 2005 he was a member of the jury at the 27th Moscow International Film Festival.

His 2012 film Paradise: Love competed for the Palme d'Or at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. The sequel Paradise: Faith won the Special Jury Prize at the 69th Venice International Film Festival. The final part of the trilogy, Paradise: Hope, premiered in competition at the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival.

Biography

À partir des années 2000, ses films sont régulièrement sélectionnés dans les grands festivals. Ainsi son film Dog Days (Hundtage) est sélectionné à la Mostra de Venise 2001 où il gagne le Grand prix du jury de la Mostra de Venise. Import/Export fait partie des films en compétition en sélection officielle au Festival de Cannes 2007, et Paradis : Amour (Paradies : Liebe) fait partie des films en compétition en sélection officielle au Festival de Cannes 2012. Les films Paradis : Foi (Paradies : Glaube) et Paradis : Espoir (Paradise : Hoffnung) sont sélectionnés en compétition, respectivement à la Mostra de Venise 2012 et à la Berlinale 2013.

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Filmography of Ulrich Seidl (7 films)

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Director

In the Basement, 1h22
Directed by Ulrich Seidl
Origin Austria
Genres Documentary
Themes Medical-themed films, Documentary films about health care, Films about psychiatry
Rating66% 3.34423.34423.34423.34423.3442
Que font les autrichiens dans leurs caves?
Paradise: Hope, 1h40
Directed by Ulrich Seidl
Origin Austria
Genres Drama
Actors Maria Hofstätter
Rating66% 3.3452553.3452553.3452553.3452553.345255
While Melanie's mother spends her holidays in Kenya, a group overweight girls go a diet camp in the Austrian mountains. Everyday life in the camp is marked by drills, rationed meals, and food counseling. At night, the girls discuss puberty's problems, smoke cigarettes and take food from the kitchen. Melanie falls in love with her physician and director of the camp. The doctor is torn between the duty to professional distance and his emotions, which become stronger against his will. At the end, he forces himself to prohibit further contact between him and Melanie, causing her deep distress.
Paradise: Love, 2h
Directed by Ulrich Seidl
Origin Austria
Genres Drama
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Erotic thriller films
Actors Margarete Tiesel, Maria Hofstätter
Rating69% 3.497543.497543.497543.497543.49754
50-year-old Austrian woman Teresa is on holiday in a beach resort in Kenya. She encounters younger men and has sex with them. She worries whether they really find her attractive. Actually they are prostitutes, although they deny that they have had encounters with other white women and do not ask a fee for their services, but instead ask for financial support for relatives in need. Teresa's friends hire a male stripper for her birthday, who dances nude for them. They are disappointed that they do not succeed much in sexually arousing him. Later Teresa invites the bartender of her resort into her room and instructs him to kiss her genital area, which he politely declines. Angrily she tells him to get out.
Paradise: Faith, 1h53
Directed by Ulrich Seidl
Origin Austria
Genres Drama
Actors Maria Hofstätter
Rating66% 3.3474853.3474853.3474853.3474853.347485
En Autriche, de nos jours. Quand elle ne travaille pas à l'hôpital, Anna Maria va dans les foyers prêcher la parole catholique. Mais les gens n'ont pas sa ferveur, et pour cause : la quadragénaire a transformé sa maison en chapelle et se flagelle régulièrement.
Import/Export, 2h15
Directed by Ulrich Seidl
Genres Drama
Actors Susanne Lothar, Maria Hofstätter, Brigitte Kren, Georg Friedrich
Rating69% 3.498623.498623.498623.498623.49862
Olga is a Ukrainian woman from Eastern Ukraine, who lives with her mother and has a child. Her job as a nurse does not pay well enough for her to support herself and her baby, and she gets a second job doing internet pornography. She eventually leaves her homeland and travels to Vienna, Austria where she finds a job as a housekeeper at a rich family's home, where she also lives. However, the woman of the family suspects her of stealing and sacks her. She is then employed as a cleaner at a geriatric hospital. There, she strikes up a relationship with an elderly man named Erich and he asks her to marry him. She accepts, as she knows this will gain her Austrian citizenship. However, Erich dies of a heart attack before they can marry.
Dog Days
Dog Days (2001)
, 2h1
Directed by Ulrich Seidl
Origin Austria
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Actors Maria Hofstätter, Franziska Weisz, Georg Friedrich
Rating69% 3.4962553.4962553.4962553.4962553.496255
Klaudia danse dans une discothèque, plusieurs hommes tournent autour d'elle. Son petit ami Mario, jaloux, provoque une bagarre et se fait expulser. Dans la voiture, il la bat, lui reproche son comportement puis l'abandonne sur le bas-côté d'une route. Le lendemain, ils se croisent, il s'excuse, ils vont dans la voiture pour faire l'amour puis Mario recommence la même scène violente que la veille.

Scriptwriter

In the Basement, 1h22
Directed by Ulrich Seidl
Origin Austria
Genres Documentary
Themes Medical-themed films, Documentary films about health care, Films about psychiatry
Roles Idea
Rating66% 3.34423.34423.34423.34423.3442
Que font les autrichiens dans leurs caves?
Paradise: Hope, 1h40
Directed by Ulrich Seidl
Origin Austria
Genres Drama
Actors Maria Hofstätter
Rating66% 3.3452553.3452553.3452553.3452553.345255
While Melanie's mother spends her holidays in Kenya, a group overweight girls go a diet camp in the Austrian mountains. Everyday life in the camp is marked by drills, rationed meals, and food counseling. At night, the girls discuss puberty's problems, smoke cigarettes and take food from the kitchen. Melanie falls in love with her physician and director of the camp. The doctor is torn between the duty to professional distance and his emotions, which become stronger against his will. At the end, he forces himself to prohibit further contact between him and Melanie, causing her deep distress.
Paradise: Love, 2h
Directed by Ulrich Seidl
Origin Austria
Genres Drama
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Erotic thriller films
Actors Margarete Tiesel, Maria Hofstätter
Rating69% 3.497543.497543.497543.497543.49754
50-year-old Austrian woman Teresa is on holiday in a beach resort in Kenya. She encounters younger men and has sex with them. She worries whether they really find her attractive. Actually they are prostitutes, although they deny that they have had encounters with other white women and do not ask a fee for their services, but instead ask for financial support for relatives in need. Teresa's friends hire a male stripper for her birthday, who dances nude for them. They are disappointed that they do not succeed much in sexually arousing him. Later Teresa invites the bartender of her resort into her room and instructs him to kiss her genital area, which he politely declines. Angrily she tells him to get out.
Paradise: Faith, 1h53
Directed by Ulrich Seidl
Origin Austria
Genres Drama
Actors Maria Hofstätter
Rating66% 3.3474853.3474853.3474853.3474853.347485
En Autriche, de nos jours. Quand elle ne travaille pas à l'hôpital, Anna Maria va dans les foyers prêcher la parole catholique. Mais les gens n'ont pas sa ferveur, et pour cause : la quadragénaire a transformé sa maison en chapelle et se flagelle régulièrement.
Import/Export, 2h15
Directed by Ulrich Seidl
Genres Drama
Actors Susanne Lothar, Maria Hofstätter, Brigitte Kren, Georg Friedrich
Rating69% 3.498623.498623.498623.498623.49862
Olga is a Ukrainian woman from Eastern Ukraine, who lives with her mother and has a child. Her job as a nurse does not pay well enough for her to support herself and her baby, and she gets a second job doing internet pornography. She eventually leaves her homeland and travels to Vienna, Austria where she finds a job as a housekeeper at a rich family's home, where she also lives. However, the woman of the family suspects her of stealing and sacks her. She is then employed as a cleaner at a geriatric hospital. There, she strikes up a relationship with an elderly man named Erich and he asks her to marry him. She accepts, as she knows this will gain her Austrian citizenship. However, Erich dies of a heart attack before they can marry.
Dog Days
Dog Days (2001)
, 2h1
Directed by Ulrich Seidl
Origin Austria
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Actors Maria Hofstätter, Franziska Weisz, Georg Friedrich
Rating69% 3.4962553.4962553.4962553.4962553.496255
Klaudia danse dans une discothèque, plusieurs hommes tournent autour d'elle. Son petit ami Mario, jaloux, provoque une bagarre et se fait expulser. Dans la voiture, il la bat, lui reproche son comportement puis l'abandonne sur le bas-côté d'une route. Le lendemain, ils se croisent, il s'excuse, ils vont dans la voiture pour faire l'amour puis Mario recommence la même scène violente que la veille.

Producer

Goodnight Mommy, 1h40
Origin Austria
Genres Drama, Thriller, Fantasy, Horror
Themes Jumeaux ou jumelles
Actors Susanne Wuest, Michael Ande, Ruth Leuwerik
Roles Unit Manager
Rating66% 3.349853.349853.349853.349853.34985
After undergoing cosmetic facial surgery, a mother (Susanne Wuest) comes back home to her modern, isolated lakeside house and her ten-year-old twins, Elias and Lukas (Elias and Lukas Schwarz). Her head is swathed in bandages, with only her eyes and mouth visible. The twins are unnerved with their mother's appearance and are further taken aback when she begins to exhibit strange behavior. She pointedly ignores Lukas and appears to only acknowledge Elias in conversation. Though it is the middle of summer, the mother orders the twins to keep the blinds closed during the day, imposes a strict rule of silence inside the house, and allows them to only play outdoors. The mother also acts cruel and lashes out at Elias physically when he displays mischievous or disobedient acts; something that the boys comment that their mother would never do.
In the Basement, 1h22
Directed by Ulrich Seidl
Origin Austria
Genres Documentary
Themes Medical-themed films, Documentary films about health care, Films about psychiatry
Roles Producer
Rating66% 3.34423.34423.34423.34423.3442
Que font les autrichiens dans leurs caves?
Paradise: Hope, 1h40
Directed by Ulrich Seidl
Origin Austria
Genres Drama
Actors Maria Hofstätter
Roles Producer
Rating66% 3.3452553.3452553.3452553.3452553.345255
While Melanie's mother spends her holidays in Kenya, a group overweight girls go a diet camp in the Austrian mountains. Everyday life in the camp is marked by drills, rationed meals, and food counseling. At night, the girls discuss puberty's problems, smoke cigarettes and take food from the kitchen. Melanie falls in love with her physician and director of the camp. The doctor is torn between the duty to professional distance and his emotions, which become stronger against his will. At the end, he forces himself to prohibit further contact between him and Melanie, causing her deep distress.