Models
by Ulrich Seidl
Austria, 1998, 118', colour
Vivian is blond and would do anything to be a cover girl, but her breasts are too small. Lisa is blond too - and her breasts are enlarged. She lives alone but hates it. Tanja is also blond, and is incapable of saying “I love you”. And these are her problems. A revealing and devastating portrait of a trio of aspiring real-life Viennese models.
Reviews
"Seidl shoots with the eye of Diane Arbus."
VILLAGE VOICE
"[Seidl] is a documentarian in the tradition of Luis Buñuel (Land Without Bread) and Werner Herzog. He is an artist whose realistic, unsparing films about ‘ordinary’ people leading terrible lives have a whiff of the surreal."
Michael Wilmington, THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE
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Ulrich Seidl
Born 1952, Ulrich Seidl lives in Vienna, Austria. He is the director of numerous award-winning documentaries such as “JESUS, DU WEISST” (JESUS, YOU KNOW), “MODELS” (MODELS) and “TIERISCHE LIEBE” (ANIMAL LOVE). His work methods, achieving the greatest authenticity possible and showing people in the most solitary and private moments has raised intense debate. His first fiction feature, “HUNDSTAGE” (DOG DAYS) won the Grand Jury Special Prize at the 2001 Venice Film Festival and his second fiction feature film IMPORT EXPORT premiered In Competition at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival.
FILMOGRAPHY
2012 PARADISE : LOVE, Fiction, 120 min.
2007 IMPORT EXPORT, Fiction, 141 min.
2003 JESUS, YOU KNOW, Documentary, 87 min.
2002 A STATE OF THE NATION: AUSTRIA IN 6 CHAPTERS,
Documentary, 87 min.
2001 DOG DAYS, Fiction, 121 min.
1999 MODELS, Fiction, 118 min.
1998 SPASS OHNE GRENZEN, Documentary, 45 min.
1997 THE BOSOM FRIEND, Documentary, 60 min.
1996 ANIMAL LOVE, Documentary, 120 min.
1996 BILDER EINER AUSSTELLUNG, Documentary, 45 min.
1994 THE LAST REAL MEN, Documentary, 60 min.
1992 LOSSES TO BE EXPECTED, Documentary, 118 min.
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Cast
Vivian Bartsch - Herself
Tanja Petrtovsky - Herself
Lisa Grossmann - Herself
Elvyra Geyer - Herself
Peter Baumann - Himself
Crew / Technical Info
Crew
Director: Ulrich Seidl
Script: Ulrich Seidl
Country of Production: Austria
Year completed: 1998
Producers: Kurt J. Mrkwicka
Production Companies: MR-FILM GmbH
Director of Photography: Hans Selikovsky, Jerzy Palacz
Editing: Christof Schertenleib
Sound: Ekkehart Baumung, Helmuth Junker, Bruno Pisek
Casting: Eva Roth
Technical Information
Category: Feature Film / Documentary
Original Language: German
Subtitles Language: English
Format: 35mm / colour
Screen Ratio: 1:1.66
Speed: 25 frames/second
Number of Reels: 6
Footage: 2140 m
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Festivals
MAIN AWARDS
Sarajevo 1999, Audience Award
Austrian TV Awards 2001, Best Film
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Ulrich SeidlBorn 1952, Ulrich Seidl lives in Vienna, Austria. He is the director of numerous award-winning documentaries such as “JESUS, DU WEISST” (JESUS, YOU KNOW), “MODELS” (MODELS) and “TIERISCHE LIEBE” (ANIMAL LOVE). His work methods, achieving the greatest authenticity possible and showing people in the most solitary and private moments has raised intense debate. His first fiction feature, “HUNDSTAGE” (DOG DAYS) won the Grand Jury Special Prize at the 2001 Venice Film Festival and his second fiction feature film IMPORT EXPORT premiered In Competition at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. |
Austria
Vivian is blond and would do anything to be a cover girl, but her breasts are too small. Lisa is blond too - and her breasts are enlarged. She lives alone but hates it. Tanja is also blond, and is incapable of saying “I love you”. And these are her problems. A revealing and devastating portrait of a trio of aspiring real-life Viennese models.
"Seidl shoots with the eye of Diane Arbus."VILLAGE VOICE"[Seidl] is a documentarian in the tradition of Luis Buñuel (Land Without Bread) and Werner Herzog. He is an artist whose realistic, unsparing films about ‘ordinary’ people leading terrible lives have a whiff of the surreal."Michael Wilmington, THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE
Vivian is blond and would do anything to be a cover girl, but her breasts are too small. Lisa is blond too - and her breasts are enlarged. She lives alone but hates it. Tanja is also blond, and is incapable of saying "I love you". And these are her problems. A revealing and devastating portrait of a trio of aspiring real-life Viennese models.
Vivian Bartsch - Herself
Tanja Petrtovsky - Herself
Lisa Grossmann - Herself
Elvyra Geyer - Herself
Peter Baumann - Himself
Crew
Director: Ulrich Seidl
Script: Ulrich Seidl
Country of Production: Austria
Year completed: 1998
Producers: Kurt J. Mrkwicka
Production Companies: MR-FILM GmbH
Director of Photography: Hans Selikovsky, Jerzy Palacz
Editing: Christof Schertenleib
Sound: Ekkehart Baumung, Helmuth Junker, Bruno Pisek
Casting: Eva Roth
Technical Information
Category: Feature Film / Documentary
Original Language: German
Subtitles Language: English
Format: 35mm / colour
Screen Ratio: 1:1.66
Speed: 25 frames/second
Number of Reels: 6
Footage: 2140 m
MAIN AWARDS
Sarajevo 1999, Audience Award
Austrian TV Awards 2001, Best Film
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