Ulrich Seidl

Birthday: November 24, 1952 in Vienna, Austria

Ulrich Seidl was born on November 24, 1952 in Vienna, Austria. He is a director and producer, known for Paradis: Amour (2012), Paradis: Foi (2012) and Goodnight Mommy (2014). He is married to Veronika ...Show More

[press conference for Import Export (2007) at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival] There are no limits. As Show more [press conference for Import Export (2007) at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival] There are no limits. As for limits, you can only set limits in the situation you find yourself and you have to set them for yourself. So as a director I was responsible for the people working with me who were in front of the camera; I have to leave them their dignity and I have to know just how far I can go and how much I can ask of them and how much I can't ask of them. So it's my own responsibility but there's no well-defined limit. This film talks about frontiers a lot, it talks about boundaries, limits. But I didn't go further than Dog Days (2001) in this new film. I've told another story, a story which has got lots of value, but in a broader context, in the European context, and I concentrate all this in two stories because I think Europe is being reunified - it's grouping together. But I think that in Ukraine, things are very different from in western Europe. You shouldn't forget that this is a film, and the actors know exactly what is the intention behind the scene they're shooting but we work with a degree of improvisation and spontaneity and there are things which are not decided in advance, but when we decide to get involved in this work, I decide on it with my actors. I decide on an objective with them, and then everybody is in agreement; everybody is prepared and ready to achieve this objective. Hide

Le bal (1982) was the reason, why I was kicked out of the Wiener Filmakademie [filmschool in Vienna] Show more Le bal (1982) was the reason, why I was kicked out of the Wiener Filmakademie [filmschool in Vienna]. The teachers didn't like the structure and editing and expected that the film would hurt the reputation of the academy. Hide

Ulrich Seidl's FILMOGRAPHY

as Creator (1)

In the Basement (Im Keller) [Sub: Eng]