''Dog Days'' (german: Hundstage) is a
2001 Austrian
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feature film
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directed by
Ulrich Seidl
Ulrich Maria Seidl (born 24 November 1952 in Vienna) is an Austrian film director, writer and producer. Among other awards, his film ''Dog Days'' won the Grand Jury Prize at Venice in 2001.
His 2012 film '' Paradise: Love'' competed for the Palme ...
. The film stars a mix of professional and amateur actors and follows six interwoven stories set in suburban
Vienna
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over the course of some unseasonably hot summer days. The film premiered at the 2001
Venice Film Festival
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where it went on to win the
Grand Special Jury Prize and also won awards at the
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and the
Gijon International Film Festival.
Plot
The film is set in Vienna during a week of unseasonably hot summer weather and has six interconnected narrative streams. An alarm systems engineer attempts to capture someone damaging cars, an old man interacts with various people including his housekeeper, a young man treats his girlfriend badly, a teacher has a date with her lover which goes wrong, a divorced couple are dealing with the death of their child and a mentally disturbed hitchhiker asks her drivers rude questions.
Cast
* The hitchhiker –
Maria Hofstätter
* The old man – Erich Finsches
* The old man's housekeeper – Gerti Lehner
* The young woman –
Franziska Weisz
* The young woman's boyfriend – Rene Wanko
* The ex-husband – Victor Rathbone
* The ex-husband's wife – Claudia Martini
* The teacher – Christine Jirku
* The lover – Viktor Hennemann
* The alarm systems engineer – Alfred Mrva
Production
Ulrich Seidl
Ulrich Maria Seidl (born 24 November 1952 in Vienna) is an Austrian film director, writer and producer. Among other awards, his film ''Dog Days'' won the Grand Jury Prize at Venice in 2001.
His 2012 film '' Paradise: Love'' competed for the Palme ...
made the film over three years, recruiting most of the cast as non-professional actors. Alfred Mrva plays the role of an alarm systems engineer whilst being an alarm systems engineer in real life and Viktor Hennemann who plays a lover in the film runs a swingers club.
Critical response
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'' review gave the film three stars out of five and called it a "disturbing vision of Viennese suburbanites suffocating in sweltering heat".
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reviewer discussed the torture scene and declared "Seidl himself relishes portraying this unpleasantness",
stated "''Dog Days'' announces the arrival of a visionary, uncompromising director".
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