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Ulrich Seidl’s latest film is about the inescapability of one’s own past and the pain of finding oneself. Sparta is the brother piece to Rimini and together with it forms a cinematic diptych. Years ago, Ewald (Georg Friedrich), who is in his mid-forties, moved to Romania. Now he dares to make a new start. He leaves his girlfriend and moves to the impoverished rural wasteland, where he and a group of prepubescent boys from the surrounding area convert a dilapidated school building into a fortress. There, the children discover a lightheartedness they never knew before – but the villagers’ suspicions are not long in coming. And Ewald has to face a long-repressed truth.
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ULRICH SEIDL (*1952) is one of the most important and radical auteur filmmakers in European cinema and oscillates between feature and documentary film with his multi-award-winning work. With his Paradise Trilogy (2012/2013), he became only the second filmmaker after Krzysztof Kieslowski to achieve a festival hat trick: The three films premiered consecutively in Cannes, Venice and Berlin.Info
Sparta
Fiction Feature
German, Romanian
Kaleidoskop//FF2022
Austria, Germany, France
2022
101 min
OV with German subtitles
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Ulrich Seidl, Philippe Bober, Michel Merkt
Wolfgang Thaler, Serafin Spitzer
Klaus Kellermann
Monika Willi, Andrea Wagner
Andreas Donhauser, Renate Martin
Tanja Hausner
Henri Steinmetz, Eva Roth
Coproduction Office
Ulrich Seidl Filmproduktion GmbH; Essential Films; Parisienne de Production; Bayerischer Rundfunk; Arte France Cinéma in collaboration with Arte
Ulrich Seidl Filmproduktion; Coproduction Office; Essential Filmproduktion; Parisienne de Production; Bayerischer Rundfunk; Arte France Cinéma
Bayerischer Rundfunk; Arte France Cinéma in Zusammenarbeit mit Arte; ORF Film/Fernseh-Abkommen
Coproduction Office, Cecilia Pezzini: festivals@coproductionoffice.eu
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Coming of AgeLonelinessAdolescenceChildhoodEastern EuropeSportsFather
