Venice is pure romance; that which all Europeans yearn for, the dream of all Americans, the wish of all Japanese.
But the world’s most beautiful city turns into a ghost town at nightfall. Entire quarters, long since abandoned by their inhabitants, stand empty, their structures merely providing a myth to serve business interests.
Twenty million foreigners visited the city last year. That’s an average of 60,000 day. And this year it will be more still. By comparison, there are only 48,000 inhabitants, the same amount as they were after the Great Plague of 1438. And next year it will be fewer still. For the city is becoming uninhabitable. Venice’s own urban life has almost collapsed; it scarcely still exists.
The film shows what remains of Venetian life: a subculture of tourist service industries; a port for monstrous cruisers which is waiting to be expanded; Venetians who are moving to the mainland as there are no longer affordable apartments to be found; an aged noblewoman who treats the municipal council with scorn; a realtor who is considering abandoning the sinking ship.
A Requiem for a still grand city. An illustration of how common property becomes the prey of few. An elegy to the last Venetians, their humour and their hearts.
D/A/I 2012 - 80 min
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Written and directed by Andreas Pichler
Photography: Attila Boa
Editing: Florian Miosge
Sound: Stefano Bernardi
Music: Jan Tilman Schade
Producer: Thomas Tielsch
Co-producer: Michael Seeber, Arash, Valerio B. Moser, Andreas Pichler
In coproduction with: Filmtank (D), Golden Girls (A)
Supported by: EURIMAGE, Filmfund Hamburg, Österreichisches Film Institut, ORF, Media II Programm, BLS - Business Location Südtirol Alto Adige, RAI Sender Bozen, Autonome Provinz Bozen
Festivals: Dok-Leipzig, Festival dei Popoli, Berlinale (lola@berlinale), Karlovy Vary Int. Film Festival, New Zeland Int. Film Festival, Doc Aviv, Docville-Leuven,, Planete+Doc Warsaw, Cinemabiente Torino, SANFIC FF – Santiago de Chile, Open City Docs, London
Awards: Best City Film at Open City Docs, London, Best Italian Documentary at Cinemabiente Torino, ARRI Kamera Preis- nonfiktionale 2013, Longlist German Film Award,
Kino-Verleih Deutschland: realfiction
Kino-Verleih Österreich: Filmladen
Cinema distribution Canada: Kinosmith
World Sales: Taskovski Films
