''Mister Universo'' is a 2016 Austrian-Italian

drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-g ...

directed by

Tizza Covi Tizza Covi (1971, in Bolzano) is an Italian screenwriter and director. She lived in Paris and Berlin before studying photography in Vienna. After finishing her studies she went to Rome where she worked as a photographer. Since 1996 she works tog ...

and

Rainer Frimmel Rainer Frimmel (born 11 July 1971 in Vienna) is an Austrian director and photographer. After studying psychology in Vienna he graduated as a photographer. He has received scholarships in New York City, Paris and Rome for his photographic work. Si ...

. It was screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section at the

2016 Toronto International Film Festival The 41st annual Toronto International Film Festival was held from 8 to 18 September 2016. The first announcement of films to be screened at the festival took place on 26 July. Almost 400 films were shown. Awards The festival's final awards were ...

. It was also screened at the 2016 Locarno Festival and the 2016

Vienna International Film Festival The Vienna International Film Festival, or Viennale, is a film festival taking place every October since 1960 in Vienna, Austria. The average number of visitors is about 75,000. Traditional cinema venues are ''Gartenbaukino'', ''Urania'', ''Metro ...

where it won an award. The film shows the everyday life of the slowly disappearing world of the circus with a cast of amateur actors. The winner of the 1957 Mr Universe competition,

Arthur Robin Arthur Robin (born 5 February 1927) is a Guadeloupean-born French former professional bodybuilder. He won the 1957 Mr. Universe championship. He was the first Black winner of the competition. In film Robin played himself in the 2016 Austrian-I ...

, played himself in the film, as did a number of other members of the cast.

Plot

Tairo, a young circus liontamer, loses a lucky horseshoe charm that had been bent out of iron by strongman Arthur Robin, a former winner of the Mr. Universe competition. The horseshoe was given to Tairo when he was a child. After several things go wrong for Tairo and he becomes disenchanted with life, he goes on a search for Arthur Robin to ask him to make a new lucky horseshoe. Tairo reunites with many of his relatives as he searches for Robin, whom he eventually finds living with his wife in a caravan park in

Milan Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city h ...

Cast

* Tairo Caroli * Wendy Weber *

* Lilly Robin

Awards

* MehrWERT-Filmpreis der Erste Bank ( Erste Bank’s MoreValue Film Award), Vienna International Film Festival, 2016.Viennale archive, 2016
Retrieved 26 December 2016

References

External links

* 2016 films 2016 drama films Circus films Austrian drama films Italian drama films 2010s Italian-language films 2010s Italian films {{Austria-film-stub