With a passionate appeal to use Austrian cinema as a place of visual magic and social interaction, , who is also co-president of the Academy of Austrian Films, enriched her Thursday night cinema appearances in Linz and Freistadt.
With her feature film , which is currently running, the 35-year-old, who for two summers as a paramour at the festival in her home state of Salzburg, made it very easy for all film lovers to take a heart for the cinema.
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The and the later performance in were well attended, you experienced a wonderfully romantic, bittersweet film regarding the love story between Caro (Altenberger) and Alexander, embodied by the South Tyrolean (“The Great Freedom”). Their life together begins in the Vienna subway, which the director uses with enchanting ideas – feathers fall like snowflakes on the tracks.
Picture gallery: OÖN film night with star guest Verena Altenberger
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Basically, Raiber’s car was “to blame” for the film, it was on strike, the director drove more subways, Altenberger said. Which triggered the romantic thought in him that it would be nice to use the underground info screens to send love greetings to his wife – the rest is film history.
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The fact that Caro is suffering from cancer raised the question in the audience whether such a blow was necessary? It was agreed that having an antagonist like Krebs would bring the film closer to real life, but ultimately give more love – something the world needs more than ever. In the Moviemento there was a lot of it, where Altenberger sprinkled “stars under the city” cameraman roses. Her appeal to the actress’ brother not to hide his light under a bushel was almost as urgent as that for the cinema.
