Blue Moon (2002 film)
| Blue Moon | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Andrea Maria Dusl |
| Written by | Andrea Maria Dusl |
| Produced by | Erich Lackner Klaus Pridnig |
| Starring | Detlev Buck Josef Hader |
| Cinematography | Wolfgang Thaler |
| Edited by | Karina Ressler Andrea Wagner |
Blue Moon is an Austrian movie written and directed by Andrea Maria Dusl in 2002. The road movie romantic comedy is Dusl's first as a director.
Plot
In a month with two full moons, Austrian petty criminal Johnny Pichler is hired to carry a bag of cash to the Slovakian border and deliver it to a gangster. Johnny arrives late in a battered taxi. He is forced into the car behind the gangster's beautiful but unhappy escort. Shirley, who is no bimbo, squirts the gangster with an incapacitating spray, kicks him out of the car and races away with Johnny and the cash. The pair makes a series of unsuccessful attempts to sell the obviously stolen car. In a Slovak hotel Johnny offers to buy Shirley's share of the car with his share of the cash. She refuses but when he returns from the bar, she is gone.
Lonely Johnny teams up with Ignaz Springer, an
Dusl sees the love that develops between Johnny and Jana as a metaphor for the relationship between the east and the west. More inspiration for the film may have come from a transatlantic romantic entanglement with an American whom she visited before going into production.[1]
Cast
- Josef Hader (Johnny Pichler)
- Detlev Buck (Ignaz Springer)
- Victoria Malektorovych (Shirley/Dana/Jana)
- Ivan Laca (Mafioso Kovacic)
- Peter Aczel (Car Dealer)
- Andrea Karnasová (Vlasta, Waitress)
- Emöke Vinczeová (Ludmila, Waitress)
- Orest Ohorodnyk (Jewgenij Pazukin)
- Serhiy Romaniuk (Ukrainian Truck Driver)
- Alla Maslenikova (Teacher)
- Katya Volkova (Teacher's Daughter Nastja)
- Borys Heorhiyevsky (Militia Officer)
Production
- Written and Directed by Andrea Maria Dusl
- Cinematography Wolfgang Thaler
- Music composed by Christian Fennesz, Peter Dusl, Yuriy Naumov, Camille Saint-Saëns, Dmitriy Shostakovich, Richard Rodgers(Blue Moon)
- Editors Karina Ressler, Andrea Wagner
- Line Producer Max Linder
- First Assistant Director and Casting Klaus Pridnig
- Producer Erich Lackner, Klaus Pridnig
Shot in German, English, Ukrainian, Russian and Slovak, the movie is available with English subtitles.
References
- ^ Chiari, Valeria. 'Interview with Andrea Maria Dusl', Cineuropa (October 14, 2002). Retrieved July 23, 2005.
External links
- Blue Moon at IMDb
