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Brüder der Nacht
- Runtime:
- 88 min.
- Year of Production:
- 2016
- Country:
- Austria
- Director:
- Production Company:
- WILDart FILM
- Berlinale Section:
- Panorama
- Berlinale Category:
- Documentary Film
Vienna as a non-stop nocturnal land and doss house, the flip side of its daytime persona, devoid of schmaltzy waltzes and‘Mozartkugel’ chocolates. The protagonists of this documentary are young Bulgarian Romani who have wound up in Vienna due to poverty and the need to earn money for their families, and who are now offering their services at a hustler bar called ‘Rüdiger’ in the working class Margareten district. They wait, smoke, drink, play pool, dance, show off, fool around like young bulls, talk about their meagre excesses, their families and prostitutes, exchange experiences and information about the ‘bizness’. In the midst of a clash of cultures and traditions, they lead lives caught between worlds, between reality and illusion; transitory, deceptive, and fleeting. Gus Van Sant meets James Bidgood meets Pasolini: Brothers of the Night is a hybrid, imbued with a rich baroque semi-darkness, deliberately and disturbingly oscillating between documentary and dramatised scenes. This is no moralising know-all ballad about hustlers, but rather a tender and empathetic hymn to the grim poetry of survival and the solidarity amongst the ostracised and the outsiders.
BIOGRAFIE Patric Chiha
Born in Vienna, Austria in 1975, he studied fashion design in Paris and then film editing at the INSAS film school in Brussels. His short and documentary films have screened at several festivals. His feature film debut Domaine, starring Béatrice Dalle, premiered at the 2009 Venice Film Festival. His documentary Brothers of the Night screened in the 2016 Panorama.
FILMOGRAFIE Patric Chiha (selection)
2020 Si c'était de l'amour
2020 Si c'était de l'amour
2016 Brüder der Nacht
2014 Boys Like Us
2012 Sol LeWitt
2009 Domaine
2007 Ou se trouve le chef de la prison?
2006 Home
2005 Les messieurs
2005 Le jardin
2004 Casa ugalde
2002 Albertine!
2001 De Vienne
Trailer
Interview with Patric Chiha