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    Tizza Covi, Rainer Frimmel

    »It was lovely to see that the encounter with "Mister Universo" really was significant for Tairo. Not because Arthur taught him how to bend an iron bar or how to increase his strength, but because something happened on a mental level. And Arthur in turn also benefited from this encounter.«
    Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel about MR. UNIVERSO
    Filmography (Selection)
    2016 Mister Universo (fiction)
    2014 Der Fotograf vor der Kamera
    2012 Der Glanz des Tages (fiction)
    2009 La Pivellina (fiction)
    2005 Babooska (doc.)
    2001 Das ist alles
    Documentary

    Aufzeichnungen aus der Unterwelt

    Notes From the Underworld

    2020
    Fiction

    Mister Universo

    2016
    Documentary

    Der Fotograf vor der Kamera

    The Photographer In Front Of The Camera

    2014
    Fiction

    Der Glanz des Tages

    The Shine of Day

    2012
    Fiction

    La Pivellina

    The Little One

    2009
    Documentary

    Babooska

    2005
    Documentary

    Das ist alles

    That's All

    2001

    MISTER UNIVERSO awarded in Montevideo and Paris

    Universally present MISTER UNIVERSO garners two awards on one weekend: the Audience Award at the Montevideo Film Festival and a Special Mention by the Prix Sauvage  jury of the L’Europe autour de l’Europe festival in Paris.

    Marrakesh Jury Prize to MISTER UNIVERSO

    The jury of the 16th Marrakesh Film Festival under the presidency of Béla Tarr confers its Jury Prize to Tizza Covi & Rainer Frimmel's MISTER UNIVERSO – a filmic journey through an unfamiliar Italy guided by iron muscles and lucky charms.
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    «Tairo had the talent to do the wrong thing at the right time.»

    MISTER UNIVERSO is set to tame Locarno's Golden Leopard: Tizza Covi & Rainer Frimmel's new film enters the force field between a lion tamer and a former Mr Universe.
    A filmic journey guided by iron muscles and lucky charms.

    Tizza Covi & Rainer Frimmel über DER GLANZ DES TAGES

    «Wir sehen die Schwierigkeiten dieser Methode und gleichzeitig übt sie eine große Faszination auf uns aus, weil ein Bergwerk an Möglichkeiten von Wirklichkeit vor uns steht.»
    Tizza Covi und Rainer Frimmel über DER GLANZ DES TAGES

    Tizza Covi & Rainer Frimmel on LA PIVELLINA

    «The documentary approach is what interests us the most in terms of filmmaking. What reality gives you just can't be reenacted.» An interview with Tizza Covi & Rainer Frimmel.

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