Wicked Games: Rimini Sparta

Program:

Special Events

Year:

2023

Country:

Austria, Germany, France

Genre:

Fiction

Duration:

205'

Three men. Two brothers and their father, whose past catches up with them. Former star crooner Richie Bravo chases after his faded glory through a wintry Rimini. When his adult daughter suddenly turns up, demanding money, Richie’s world begins to collapse. His younger brother Ewald meanwhile is seeking to make a new beginning in a remote corner of Romania. With young boys from the area, he transforms a dilapidated school into a fortress, thereby arousing the parents’ suspicions. And in a nursing home in Austria, their father goes round in circles. WICKED GAMES — RIMINI SPARTA is the combined and extended version of Ulrich Seidl’s diptych about unfulfilled longing and the pain of finding yourself.

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Ulrich Seidl

Ulrich Seidl, born 1952, is an Austrian film director, writer and producer. Seidl grew up in a Roman Catholic family. Although at one point he wanted to become a priest, he studied journalism and drama at Vienna University instead. Afterwards, he studied film-making at the Vienna Film Academy.

He started his career with award-winning documentaries such as GOOD NEWS (1990), ANIMAL LOVE (1995) and MODELS (1998). Seidl’s first feature fiction film DOG DAYS (2001) won the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival in 2001. IMPORT EXPORT (2007) was the first film Seidl produced through his own production company, formed in 2003 with his long-term co-author Veronika Franz. It was followed by his prize-winning PARADISE Trilogy (2012). All three films were premiered in competition in Cannes, Venice and Berlin.

Filmography: Rimini (2022), Paradise: Love (2012), Paradise: Faith (2012)

Creative team

Director

Ulrich Seidl

Screenplay

Ulrich Seidl, Veronika Franz

Camera

Wolfgang Thaler

Editing

Monika Willi

Production design

Andreas Donhauser, Renate Martin