Fieber

FEVER
Director
Elfi Mikesch
Country
Austria
Year
2014
Genre
Fiction
Scriptwriters
Elfi Mikesch
Cast
Eva Mattes, Martin Wuttke, Carolina Cardoso, Nicole Max, Sascha Ley, Luc Feit, Oleg Zhukov, André Jung ao.
Production
Amour Fou Luxembourg sarl

Storyline

Austria, 1950s. Franzi, eleven years old, lives in a small town with her parents. Photographs belong to her life like picture books to those of other kids. She spends days and nights between dream and reality, ‘bringing to life’ the photos her dad took in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia while being stationed there as a foreign legionaire. The images are enigmatic and spark her imagination, fascination and horror never lie far apart. The father’s feverish dreams, triggered by a recurrent surge of malaria, become the girl’s nightmare. Years later, the successful and now grown-up Franziska travels from Graz to Novi Sad, searching for a lost sister and the images of her childhood start blurring with her journey to Serbia. In “Fever”, two narrative threads conjoin suspensefully: fiction and photo-film and the film oscillates between dream and reality.

Festivals & Academy awards and others

Berlin International Film Festival 2014
Panorama Section

Call for proposals i2i Audiovisual
Year 2013
Call number 34/2012
Media support 35.201,73€

EACEA 34/2012 - Deadline 07/06/13
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