Club Zero
Synopsis
Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2023 - Competition - World premiere
Official Selection Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2023
Details
- Year
- 2023
- Type of project
- Features
- Running time
- 110 min
- Director
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Jessica Hausner
- Producer
- Philippe Bober, Mike Goodridge, Johannes Schubert, Bruno Wagner
- Co-Producer
- Per Damgaard Hansen, Clemens Köstlin
- Executive Producer
- Barth Brosseau, Kristin Irving, Alex C. Lo, Eva Yates, Vladimir Zemtsov
- Editor
- Karina Ressler
- Screenwriter
- Géraldine Bajard, Jessica Hausner
- Director of Photography
- Martin Gschlacht
- Production Designer
- Beck Rainford
- Composer
- Markus Binder
- Principal cast
- Mia Wasikowska, Mathieu Demy, Elsa Zylberstein, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Amir El-Masry, Camilla Rutherford
Genre
Categories
Production Status
Production Company
Austria, UK, Germany, France, Denmark co-production
A Coop99 (AT), Coproduction Office (FR), ARTE (FR), Club Zero (UK), Essential Filmproduktion Gmbh (DE), Gold Rush Films (UK), Paloma Productions (DK), Parisienne (FR), The Danish Film Institute Archive production (DK), Turkish Radio & Television [TRT] (TR), ZDF Enterprises (DE), ZDF/Arte (DE), Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen [ZDF] (DE), Österreichischer Rundfunk [ORF] (AT) production
With support from Austrian Film Institute (AT), BBC Film (UK), Danish Film Institute [DFI] (DK), Doha Film Institute (QA), Filmstandort Austria [FISA] (AT), ORF (AT), Obala Art Centar (BA), TRT 1 Türk Sinemasi (TR), Vienna Film Financing Fund (AT), ZDF Studios (DE)
Sales Company
Coproduction Office
24, Rue Lamartine75009 Paris
France
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