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Nikolaus Geyrhalter
AT 2019 115'
⚬ Green
Several billion tons of earth are moved annually by humans - with shovels, excavators or dynamite. Nikolaus Geyrhalter observes people in mines, quarries, large construction sites in a constant struggle to transform the planet.
Director | Nikolaus Geyrhalter |
Producers | Michael Kitzberger, Markus Glaser, Wolfgang Widerhofer, Nikolaus Geyrhalter |
Executive Producer | Michael Kitzberger |
Production Company | Nikolaus Geyrhalter Filmproduktion |
Cinematography | Nikolaus Geyrhalter |
Editor | Niki Mossböck |
Sound | Pavel Cuzuioc, Simon Graf, Lenka Mikulová, Hjalti Bager-Jonathansson, Nora Czamler |
Prize of the Ecumenical Jury | Berlinale 2019 |
International Award | Sheffield Doc/Fest 2019 |
Best Green Dox Award | Dokufest 2019 |
Best Documentary | Österreichischer Filmpreis 2020 |
Berlinale 2019 |
Lichter Filmfest Frankfurt 2019 |
BAFICI 2019 |
Copenhagen Architecture Festival 2019 |
Festival of Tolerance 2019 |
Magnificent Seven European Feature Documentary FF 2019 |
Austrian Film Week Kiev 2019 |
Moscow IFF 2019 |
Filmkunstfest Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 2019 |
Sheffield Doc/Fest 2019 |
DocAviv 2019 |
La Roche-sur-Yon International Film Festival 2019 |
IDFA 2019 |
Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival 2019 |
| Runtime | 115' |
| Spoken Languages | English, German, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish |
| Production Countries | Austria |
| Resolution | 4K |
Nikolaus Geyrhalter was born in Vienna, Austria in 1972. Twenty-two years later he formed his own production company: Nikolaus Geyrhalter Filmproduktion. He made his first film, EISENERZ, in 1992. Two years later, he shot his first documentary, WASHED ASHORE (1994) it is telling a story about the river Danube and often strange idiosyncrasies of the people who live along its banks. Geyrhalter’s static-camera, well-paced observational films tackle their subjects head-on, whether it’s exploring the terrain in Chernobyl, Ukraine (PRIPYAT - 1998), tracing the route of the Dakar Rally (7915 KM - 2008), or investigating the production of processed foods (OUR DAILY BREAD - 2005). In 2003 he received Austrian State Award for Film Art and in 2008 his film OUR DAILY BREAD won the Grimme Prize.
