Story
The film version of Robert Seethaler’s eponymous best-seller is a moving, disturbing coming-of-age story. Austria 1937: 17-year old Franz Huchel (Simon Morzé) leaves his home village on Lake Atter to begin an apprenticeship with tobacconist Otto Trsnjek (Johannes Krisch). Among the regular customers is Sigmund Freud (Bruno Ganz). When the boy falls in love with cabaret dancer Anezka (Emma Drogunova), he seeks the advice of the world-famous psychoanalyst – and discovers that the female sex is as much a mystery to Freud as it is to him. Franz resolves to fight for his love and is then caught up in the vortex of political events.
Director
NIKOLAUS LEYTNER (*1957) is a director and screenplay writer and co-founder of Allegro Film, one of Austria's most successful film companies.Trailer
Info
Der Trafikant
Fiction Feature
German
Freihafen | FF2018
Austria, Germany
2018
113 min
OV with English subtitles
Nikolaus Leytner
Klaus Richter, Nikolaus Leytner
Simon Morzé, Bruno Ganz, Johannes Krisch, Emma Drogunova, Regina Fritsch, Karoline Eichhorn, Michael Fitz
Dieter Pochlatko, Jakob Pochlatko, Ralf Zimmermann
Hermann Dunzendorfer
Bettina Mazakarini
Matthias Weber
Bertram Reiter
Claudia Grässel (ARD Degeto)
Tobis Film GmbH
Beta Cinema
Epo-Film; Glory Film
Charlotte Makris, Tobis Film GmbH: charlotte.makris@tobis.de