Dog Days (2001)
Hundstage
Vignettes of the lives of several residents of a Vienna suburb during a heat wave.
- Date of release
- 2001-09-03
- TMDB
- 6.6 / 10 (108)
- Runtime
- 2h 2m
- Genres
- Drama, Comedy
- Director
- Ulrich Seidl
Casting
- Maria Hofstätter — Die Anhalterin
- Alfred Mrva — Der Mann für die Sicherheit
- Franziska Weisz — Die Freundin des Opel-Freaks
- Christine Jirku — Lehrerin und Geliebte von Vikerl
- Viktor Hennemann — Vikerl
- Georg Friedrich — Angetrunkener Freund von Vikerl
- Claudia Martini — Die geschiedene Frau und Freundin des Masseurs
- Victor Rathbone — Der geschiedene Mann
- Gerti Lehner — Haushälterin des Alten Mannes
- Erich Finsches — Alter Mann
Interesting facts
- Awards: 1 · Nominations: 1. Including: Grand Jury Prize of the Venice Film Festival
Dog Days is a 2001 Austrian feature film directed by Ulrich Seidl. The film stars a mix of professional and amateur actors and follows six interwoven stories set in suburban Vienna over the course of some unseasonably hot summer days. The film premiered at the 2001 Venice Film Festival where it went on to win the Grand Special Jury Prize and also won awards at the International Film Festival Bratislava and the Gijón International Film Festival.
Production
Ulrich Seidl made the film over three years, recruiting most of the cast as non-professional actors. Alfred Mrva plays the role of an alarm systems engineer whilst being an alarm systems engineer in real life and Viktor Hennemann who plays a lover in the film runs a swingers club.
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