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09.03. - 21:00,
French Cultural Institute

Director:  Herbert Brodl
Cinematography:  Volker Tittel
Screenplay:  Herbert Brodl
Producer:  Michael Kitzberger
With:  Fernando Alves Pinto, Nilton Bicudo
Production:  Nikolaus Geyrhalter Filmproduktion
International distribution:  Nikolaus Geyrhalter Filmproduktion
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Flyers over Amazonia
Flieger uber Amazonien
Flyers over Amazonia
Austria , 2008, 90 min, color

Flying as a dream and a passion, a job and a fate. That’s the story of pilots Nilton and Fernando, hoboes of the air. They fly over Amazonia, the largest river region on the planet and its greatest forest, both a miracle of creation and a target of deforestation.
Amazonia is portrayed in brilliant bird’s-eye-view images, through authentic characters and their stories, actors, the pilots’ voices, their thoughts concerning flying, fact and invention. A film that maintains a balance between realism and poetry, everyday life and dreams, combining them to pull the viewer into this world. An invitation to fly along.

Herbert Brodl
Austrian director, born in 1949 in St. Pölten. He visited the Max-Reinhardt-Seminar from 1968 to 1969 and studied Philosophy at the University of Vienna from 1969 to 1973. In 1971 and 1972 he made his first films for ORF, the Austrian broadcasting company. From 1976 he has written and directed films in Peru, Italy, South Africa, Vanuatu, Benin, Zimbabwe and São Tomé e Príncipe, plus eight in Brazil. In 1982 he founded Baumhaus Film Brödl in Hamburg, which produced his films until 2002.
1984  Das Schlangenfischkanu – Eine Flubreise in Amazonien– docu
1988  Inseln der Illusion
1989  Die Farben der Vogel
1994  Jaguar und Regen – docu
1998  Fruchtchen - Am Àquator ist alles mîglich– docu
2002  Eclipse
2008  Flieger uber Amazonien– docu
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