Best Film and Best Actor Michael Fuith: Markus Schleinzer’s disturbing feature debut MICHAEL focusing on the daily life of a pedophile with his 10-year-old captive was the winner of the Max Ophüls Preis Festival 2012 in Saarbrücken. The Best Actress Award also went to an Austrian co-production: Peri Baumeister convinced the jury as Georg Trakl’s sister Grete in TABU – THE SOUL IS A STRANGER ON EARTH.

 

Max Ophüls Preis 2012 


Best Film
MICHAEL by Markus Schleinzer (NGF Nikolaus Geyrhalter Filmproduktion)



Best Actor
MICHAEL FUITH in Michael by Markus Schleinzer (NGF Nikolaus Geyrhalter Filmproduktion)



Michael describes the last five months of 10-year-old Wolfgang’s and 35-year-old Michael’s involuntary life together

supported by: Austrian Film Institute, FISA, ORF, Vienna Film Fund, Cine Tirol

 

with Michael Fuith, David Rauchenberger


Best Actress
PERI BAUMEISTER in Tabu - The Soul is a Stranger on Earth (Eclypse Filmpartner, IRIS Productions (L), Film-Line (D))

Two solitary children go from clinging to each other for companionship to becoming soul mates, then lovers; no one can tear them asunder, not even they themselves. Georg and Margarete Trakl, the great poet and his muse, protagonists of perhaps the greatest never-before-told forbidden love story in history.

supported by Austrian Film Institute, FISA, ORF, Vienna Film Fund

with Peri Baumeiser, Lars Eidinger, Rainer Bock, Petra Morzé, Rafael Stachowiak