It’s the early 1950s and little Franzi is growing up in the small Austrian town of Judenburg. Her oppressive family home is dominated by her feverish and mentally ill father, who is rigid and unpredictable. Her father, who regularly delivers halves of pork for the butcher, spent several years in the French Foreign Legion in Morocco, Algeria and Syria – a period which he partly glorifies but which still also haunts him. Franzi immerses herself in this world by looking at an abundance of beguiling yet disturbing photographs taken at the time by her father. Her own childish fantasy realm of fairy tales and picture books soon intermingle with nightmares as reality merges with imagination, war, horror and beauty.
Credits
Fever Cast
Name |
Character |
André Jung
He was 52, now 63 years old
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as Jaques Briquet |
Eva Mattes
She was 59, now 70 years old
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as Franziska |
Martin Wuttke
He was 52, now 62 years old
|
as Vater |
Luc Feit
He was 51, now 62 years old
|
as Monsieur Charbon |
Nicole Max
She was 52, now 63 years old
|
as Mutter |
Fever Crew
Name |
Department |
Elfi Mikesch as Director. She was 73 (now 84) years old
|
Directing |
Elfi Mikesch as Writer. She was 73 (now 84) years old
|
Writing |