At the beginning of the 20th Century Egon Schiele is one of the most provocative artists in Vienna. His life and work are driven by beautiful women and an era that is coming to an end. Two women will have a lasting impact on him – his sister and first muse Gerti, and 17 year old Wally, arguably Schiele’s one true love, immortalised in his famous painting ‘Death and the Maiden’. Schiele’s radical paintings scandalise Viennese society while daring artists like Gustav Klimt and art agents alike are sensing the exceptional. But Egon Schiele is also prepared to go beyond his own pain and to sacrifice Love and Life for his Art.

Direction: Dieter Berner

Script: Hilde Berger

Production: Alexander Glehr, Franz Novotny, Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu, Bady Minck, Ulrich Seidl, Bady Minck

Cinematography: Carsten Thiele

Editing: Robert Hentschel

Production Design: Götz Weidner

Costume Design: Uli Simon

Make-Up: Beatrice Stephany

Sound: Francois Dumont

Original Score: Andre Dziezuk

Cast: Noah Saavedra, Valerie Pachner, Maresi Riegner

Original Title: EGON SCHIELE - TOD UND MÄDCHEN

Original Language: German

Film Production Countries: Austria, Luxembourg

Website: http://www.egonschiele-derfilm.at

Social Media: https://www.facebook.com/egonschielederfilm/

Statement of the Director/s
When I was in middle-school, Egon Schiele was an insider’s tip. It was amazing how suddenly all of my classmates decided that he was the best painter ever. He was the painter of our generation. I only saw films about
him later, and I was mostly unsatisfied with them. Hilde Berger’s novel, and the way in which she approached the figure of Egon, who has always fascinated, was the thing that tipped the scales for me.
We had often written screenplays together, but initially she said it wasn’t going to be a screenplay, that is, it was already a novel. We started to work on it nonetheless, and our approach consisted of trying to determine which experiences would bring us closer to this painter and tell us what and why he paints. This turned out to be his unique relationship to sexuality and his unconventional relationship to women who stood as models for him. It was his work that first interested me, but I never would have had the slightest thought of making a film about it.
It was only when I got to know the person Egon Schiele through Hilde Berger that the relationship between the man and his work became clearer. Only then did I start liking the idea of making a movie about it, that is, telling a story of what paintings can mean to someone.

Biography of the Director/s
Dieter Berner was born in Vienna in 1944. Following his studies at Max Reinhardt Seminar, he worked as a stage and film actor and director in Austria, Germany and Switzerland. He played the lead in Michael Haneke’s THE SEVENTH CONTINENT (1989) and co-wrote and directed various award-winning TV series. His first feature film JOINT VENTURE (1994) premiered at Karlovy Vary. Since 2007, Dieter Berner has directed several film projects in cooperation with his students at the film academies in Babelsberg and Vienna.

Filmography of the Director/s
2013: "LiebeMacht", feature film
2010: "Sickness of Youth", feature film
2007: "Berlin Round Dance", feature film
2007: "Tatort - Die Anwältin", TV movie
2006: "Tatort - Sonnenfinsternis", TV movie
2005: "Tatort - Die schlafende Schöne", TV movie
2003: "Katz und Hund", TV movie
2000: "The Arrest of Johann Nepomuk Nestroy", TV movie
1994: "Joint Venture", feature film
1988: "Müllomania", feature film
1989-1991: "Arbeitersaga", TV-series
1976 - 1980: "Die Alpensaga", TV-series

Awards Won
AUSTRIAN FILM PRICE 2017 - Best actress (Valerie Pachner)
ROMY 2017 - Best Newcomer (Actor - Noah Saavedra)
ROMY 2017 - Best Newcomer (Actress - Valerie Pachner)
ROMY 2017 - Best Screenplay (Hilde Berger & Dieter Berner)
ROMY 2017 - Best Producers Cinema Feature

World Sales:
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Press:
Novotny & Novotny Filmproduktion GmbH
Alexander Glehr
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Wien, 1180, Austria
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