In the early 18th century, a boy from Africa is sold in Europe as a slave, he grows up in the circles of a countess who turns him into the object of an “ennoblement” experiment, until he ends up in the salons of a noble who forces him to perform stories about his exotic homeland, wearing a costume – a Scheherazade in charge of amusing high society’s ennui. His skin (and its color) will become the physical limit that separates him from his true love, but also the surface where discourses of exclusion and acceptance, memory and silence, and the genealogy of modern slavery will be inscribed.
Angelo
Angelo
59th TIFF: Greek Premiere
Screening Schedule
No physical screenings scheduled. |
- Direction: Markus Schleinzer
- Script: Markus Schleinzer, Alexander Brom
- Cinematography: Gerald Kerkletz
- Editing: Pia Dumont
- Sound: Pia Dumont, Philippe Kohn
- Actors: Makita Samba, Alba Rohrwacher, Larisa Faber, Kenny Nzogang, Lukas Miko, Gerti Drassl, Michael Rotschopf, Jean-Baptiste Tiémélé, Nancy Mensah-Offei, Olivier Baume, Martine Schambacher, Anne Klein, Jean-Michel Larré, Pierre Bodry, Marisa Growaldt, Christian Friedel
- Production: Novotny & Novotny Filmproduktion, Amour Fou Luxembourg,
- Producers: Alexander Glehr, Franz Novotny, Bady Minck, Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu, Markus Schleinzer
- Art Direction: Andreas Sobotka, Martin Reiter
- Costumes: Tanja Hausner
- Executive producer: Johanna Scherz
- Camera: Andi Winter, Lukas Allmaier, Thomas Maier
- Make Up: Anette Keiser
- Format: DCP
- Color: Color
- Production Country: Austria, Luxembourg
- Production Year: 2018
- Duration: 110΄
- Contact: Playtime, info@playtime.group
Markus Schleinzer
Markus Schleinzer was born in Vienna in 1971. From 1994 to 2010 he worked as a casting director and was engaged in the production of approximately 70 feature films, including several films by Jessica Hausner, Ulrich Seidl and Michael Haneke. In 2008, working as a casting director on Haneke’s The White Ribbon, he was given the chance to train the child-actors, to prepare scenes and work with them on set, in front of the camera. Out of this experience he decided to try his own luck as a filmmaker. Michael is his provocative feature film debut as director and scriptwriter. Schleinzer is also working as a theatre and film actor himself.
Filmography
2011 Michael
2018 Angelo
2018 Angelo
