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BERLINALE 2017 Austria

Wild Mouse: The Bear-hunting rodent

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- Actor Josef Hader is representing Austria in the Berlin competition with his first film as both actor and director

Wild Mouse: The Bear-hunting rodent
Josef Hader in Wild Mouse

Seasoned Austrian actor Josef Hader, who recently played the title role in Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe [+see also:
trailer
interview: Maria Schrader
film profile
]
, the film selected to represent his country at the Oscars, is set to unveil his directorial debut, Wild Mouse [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Josef Hader
interview: Josef Hader
film profile
]
, in the international competition of the 67th Berlin Film Festival (9-19 February).

In the feature, which boasts a screenplay written by Hader himself, he also plays the lead role of Georg, a renowned music critic who gets the sack from his very comfortable job at a newspaper in Vienna and decides to take revenge, while concealing his dismissal from his younger wife (Pia Hierzegger), who wants a child with him. He then embarks upon a project to renovate rollercoasters with an old friend of his (played by Georg Friedrich, who is thus appearing in two films in competition at Berlin, the other being Thomas Arslan's Bright Nights).

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Wild Mouse is billed as a tragicomedy that makes light of its middle-class hero's ego, but which, above all else, is about interpersonal communication problems, attempting to reproduce them with the viewer in such a way that he or she will reflect on these themes and remain captivated throughout.

Wild Mouse was produced by Vienna-based outfit WEGA Filmproduktion, while the movie's international sales are handled by The Match Factory.

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(Translated from French)

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