Böse Spiele – Rimini Sparta
Ulrich Seidl
Games and malice are equally important in this family story: The father deals with dementia, going in ever smaller circles with his walker. His two sons leave to unlearn fear but never manage to escape the old man’s spell.
“Rimini” meets “Sparta”; a place of relaxation meets a place of discipline, two territories of happiness and states of emergency. The two films directed by Ulrich Seidl merge to create a third, unique work: This Rimini reminds as little of Ferragosto as Sparta does of the Thermopylae, yet both myths and their imagery are always present.
24 April 2025
19:00 h, Kino des DFF
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| Direction | Ulrich Seidl |
| Country | Österreich, Frankreich, Deutschland |
| Year | 2023 |
| Duration | 203 min |
| Language | Deutsch, Italienisch, Rumänisch |
| Language version | OmU |
| Production | Ulrich Seidl, Philippe Bober, Michel Merkt |
| Cast | Hans-Michael Rehberg, Michael Thomas, Georg Friedrich, Tessa Göttlicher |
| Camera | Wolfgang Thaler |
| Script | Ulrich Seidl, Veronika Franz |
| Editing | Monika Willi |
| Sound | Klaus Kellermann |
| Music | Herwig Zamernik, Fritz Ostermayer (Richie Bravo Songs) |
| Sound Design | Matz Müller, Tobias Fleig |
The director about the movie
“In any case, I want the viewer to leave the theater differently after seeing one of my films than when they went in. I want my films to have a lasting effect. I want to unsettle the viewer, because every uncertainty raises questions and, in the best case, leads to insights.” - Ulrich Seidl
About the director
Ulrich Seidl began his career with award-winning documentaries such as Good News (1990), Tierische Liebe (1995) and Models (1998). He won the Grand Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival in 2001 with his feature film debut Hundstage. After Import Export (2007), the first film that Seidl made with his own production company, which he founded in 2003 together with his long-time co-writer Veronika Franz, came his successful, award-winning PARADISE trilogy (2012), whose films premiered in the Cannes, Venice and Berlin competitions. This was followed by Im Keller (2014) and Safari (2016). His feature films Rimini (Berlinale, Competition) and its brother Sparta (San Sebastián International Film Festival) premiered in 2022. The networked (feature-length) version BÖSE SPIELE - Rimini Sparta premiered at the International Film Festival in Rotterdam in 2023.
IN ATTENDANCE OF ULRICH SEIDL & VERONIKA FRANZ
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