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FEVER

by Elfi Mikesch

synopsis

Austria, 1950s. Franzi, eleven years old, lives in a small town with her parents. Photographs belong to her life like picture books to those of other kids. She spends days and nights between dream and reality, ‘bringing to life’ the photos her dad took in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia while being stationed there as a foreign legionaire. The images are enigmatic and spark her imagination, fascination and horror never lie far apart. The father’s feverish dreams, triggered by a recurrent surge of malaria, become the girl’s nightmare. Years later, the successful and now grown-up Franziska travels from Graz to Novi Sad, searching for a lost sister and the images of her childhood start blurring with her journey to Serbia.

international title: Fever
original title: Fieber
country: Luxembourg, Austria
sales agent: EastWest Filmdistribution GmbH
year: 2014
genre: fiction
directed by: Elfi Mikesch
film run: 80'
screenplay: Elfi Mikesch
cast: Martin Wuttke, Eva Mattes, Sascha Ley, Nilton Martins, Nicole Max, Carolina Cardoso
cinematography by: Jerzy Palacz
film editing: Pia Dumont
art director: Christina Schaffer
costumes designer: Brigitta Fink
music: André Mergenthaler
producer: Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu, Bady Minck
production: Amour Fou Luxembourg, Amour Fou Vienna
backing: Filmfund Luxembourg, ÖFI, FISA, Cine Styria, BLS and ZDF/3sat, Austrian Film Commission

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