Michael Haneke, Ruth Mader, Bady Minck, Virgil Widrich in Cannes, 2003
Amour Fou Film
In August 2001 Amour Fou Filmproduktionen GmbH is founded, together with Gabriele Kranzelbinder, Alexander Ivanceanu and the Wiener Volksbildungsverein/Polyfilm.
Year
2001
In August 2001 Amour Fou Filmproduktionen GmbH is founded, together with Gabriele Kranzelbinder, Alexander Ivanceanu and the Wiener Volksbildungsverein/Polyfilm. In December Amour Fou Filmproduktion GmbH and Virgil Widrich Film- und Multimediaproduktionen G.m.b.H. move into their new office at Lindengasse 32, 1070 Wien.
2007 Virgil Widrich resigns as a partner. Alexander Ivanceanu continues the company together with Bady Minck while Gabriele Kranzelbinder founds a new production firm, “KGP - Kranzelbinder Gabriele Production GmbH”.
Events, worldwide.
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June 1, 200701.06.2007
There are also changes in the film production company Amour Fou: the managing directors Gabriele Kranzelbinder and Alexander Ivanceanu part company while Thomas Woschitz and Virgil Widrich resign as partners. Alexander Ivanceanu continues the company together with Bady Minck while Gabriele Kranzelbinder founds a new production firm, “KGP - Kranzelbinder Gabriele Production GmbH”.
June 1, 200501.06.2005
Amour Fou finishes “Crash Test Dummies” (director: Jörg Kalt). The shooting for György Pálfi’s “Taxidermia” starts in April, autumn will see the shooting for Anja Salomonowitz’s “Kurz davor ist es passiert”.
May 15, 200415.05.2004
Amour Fou is co-producing “Ma Mère” (directed by Christophe Honoré) with Isabelle Huppert, in Cannes, Thomas Woschitz’s “Girls and Cars” is presented.
May 12, 200312.05.2003 – May 25, 200325.05.2003
Amour Fou presents the films “Im Anfang war der Blick” (Bady Minck), “Struggle” (Ruth Mader) and “Pas de repos pour les braves” (Alain Guiraudie) at the Cannes Filmfestival.
April 11, 200211.04.2002 – December 31, 201431.12.2014
Official opening of the offices of “Amour Fou Filmproduktion” and “Virgil Widrich Film- und Multimediaproduktions G.m.b.H.” at Lindengasse 32, 1060 Vienna on 11.4.2002 starting at 16:00.
February 1, 200201.02.2002 – February 9, 200209.02.2002
Curating the film series “Carte blanche vs brown thoughts” at Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival. *Austrian films have been dealing with “brown thoughts” for many years, whereas “brown” does not have much in common with the act of “thinking”. In a long sequence in the film “Autumn 95/Fall 95" we can get a notion of what kind of people were attracted by events with Jörg Haider in 1995, and what they had to say. Today we can see many other people around Haider, who had not yet come to the forefront in 1995. “Zero Crossing” is situated on the other side of the spectrum of opinions; in equally long sequences, it is banning the instantaneous disgust in March 2000 on film. The state of shock of the interviewees then has today – two years after the Freedom Party has entered the Austrian government – given place to a common paralysis. The opponent has, in the meanwhile, become powerful: in Austria, we were first with a right wing government. Now, there is not only Haider, but there are also Berlusconi and Bush. Those people are going to stay with us for a while because difficult times are heydeys for bad politicians. On the other hand, difficult times are also heydeys for good films – and nine of those can be seen at Clermont-Ferrand. They are entirely different films, but what they stand against is always the same. Many thanks to Amour Fou Filmproduktion, Meter, Navigator Film, Sixpack Film, “Die Kunst der Stunde ist Widerstand” and Schnittpunktfilm.* *Virgil Widrich* Films shown: “Günter 1939 (Heil Hitler)” (Johannes Rosenberger), “Herbst 95" (Alexander Binder, Michael Gartner, Elke Groen, Rainer Frimmel, Rainer Obrist), “5 Filme gegen Schwarz-Blau: Schaukel” (Thomas Horvath), “Dar-el-Beida” (Tim Sharp), “Passagen” (Lisl Ponger), “Heimkehr. Wien 1941/1996.” (Caroline Weihs, Michael Domes), “Zero Crossing. Conversations in Vienna” (Johannes Holzhausen), “Marriage Blanc” (Concept Gustav Deutsch, realization Gustav Deutsch and Mostafa Tabbou), “Pinocchio” (Martin Reinhart)
January 1, 200201.01.2002
Amour Fou Filmproduktion GmbH. produces the films by Bady Minck (“Im Anfang war der Blick”) and Martin Arnold (“Deanimated – The invisible Ghost”).
January 1, 200201.01.2002
Virgil Widrich Film- und Multimediaproduktions G.m.b.H. moves into the office at Lindengasse 32, 1070 Vienna, sharing space with the newly founded Amour Fou Film.
August 6, 200106.08.2001
On August 6th 2001, a second film company is founded: Amour Fou Filmproduktionen GmbH, together with Gabriele Kranzelbinder, Alexander Ivanceanu and the Wiener Volksbildungsverein/Polyfilm. In December Amour Fou Filmproduktion GmbH. and Virgil Widrich Film- und Multimediaproduktionen G.m.b.H. move into a new office at Lindengasse 32, 1070 Wien.
