Malina

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«Ingeborg Bachmann meets Elfriede Jelinek meets Werner Schroeter: a radical mix, which results in a surprisingly disciplined film, tailored entirely for Isabelle Huppert: A nameless writer lives with a man named Malina, more a reasoned than a love relationship. One day she meets Ivan, to whom she quickly loses her heart – and thus becomes increasingly a prisoner of her dreams and fears. Georg Seesslen: ‹Schroeter's camera mercilessly focuses on the decay of a human being, who is thrown back by an absolute claim of feeling to an equally absolute loneliness. (…) All that remains for her is disappearance, which can only be death.›» (Florian Widegger, Filmarchiv Austria) Cast and additional information: Director: Werner Schroeter Screenplay: Elfriede Jelinek Author: Ingeborg Bachmann Cinematography: Elfi Mikesch Music: Giacomo Manzoni, Tomaso Traetta, Carl Maria von Weber Editing: Andrea Wenzler, Juliane Lorenz Cast: Isabelle Huppert (the woman), Mathieu Carrière (Malina), Can Togay (Ivan), Fritz Schediwy (Father), Isolde Barth (Mother), Libgart Schwarz (Miss Jelinek), Elisabeth Krejcir (Lina), Peter Kern (Bulgarian), Jenny Drivala (Opera singer), Wiebke Frost (Sister of the woman), Lolita Chammah (Child)