Jack (2015 Film)
''Jack'' is a 2015 Austrian thriller film about serial killer Jack Unterweger, directed by Elisabeth Scharang. It was screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. Plot Jack Unterweger, who grew up in a red-light district and who was previously known to the police for petty theft, is arrested for the murder of a woman, found guilty and sentenced to life in prison. While incarcerated, he begins to write, which attracts a following of several intellectuals. After about 15 years, he is granted parole, in great part due to the advocacy of his famous supporters. He soon becomes a heartthrob present at events, and a guest in television programs. He writes his first successful novel. He appears to be the model of rehabilitation after prison. But after several unsolved murders of prostitutes, he attracts the attention of police investigators again. In 1994, Unterweger is charged with the crimes, again, and is sentenced to live withou ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Elisabeth Scharang
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Johannes Krisch
Johannes Krisch (born 1966) is an Austrian actor. He has appeared in more than forty films since 1987. Selected filmography References External links * 1966 births Living people Austrian male film actors Male actors from Vienna {{Austria-actor-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Locarno International Film Festival
The Locarno International Film Festival is a major international film festival, held annually in Locarno, Switzerland. Founded in 1946, the festival screens films in various competitive and non-competitive sections, including feature-length narrative, documentary, short, avant-garde, and retrospective programs. The Piazza Grande section is held in an open-air venue that seats 8,000 spectators. The top prize of the festival is the Golden Leopard, awarded to the best film in the International Competition. Other awards include the Leopard of Honour for career achievement, and the Prix du public, Prix du Public, the public choice award. History The Locarno Film Festival was established by the tourist office Pro Locarno and several professionals from the movie industry. As stated by cinema historians, it emerged as a ‘grassroots celebration’ and mostly oriented on attracting tourists to Locarno, offering various entertainment events such as fashion shows and excursions. The in ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Thriller Film
Thriller film, also known as suspense film or suspense thriller, is a broad film genre that evokes excitement and suspense in the audience. The suspense element found in most films' plots is particularly exploited by the filmmaker in this genre. Tension is created by delaying what the audience sees as inevitable, and is built through situations that are menacing or where escape seems impossible. The cover-up of important information from the viewer, and fight and chase scenes are common methods. Life is typically threatened in a thriller film, such as when the protagonist does not realize that they are entering a dangerous situation. Thriller films' characters conflict with each other or with an outside force, which can sometimes be abstract. The protagonist is usually set against a problem, such as an escape, a goal, mission, or a mystery. Screenwriter and scholar Eric R. Williams identifies thriller films as one of eleven super-genres in his Screenwriters Taxonomy, screenwriter ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Jack Unterweger
Johann "Jack" Unterweger (16 August 1950 – 29 June 1994) was an Austrian serial killer who committed at least twelve murders in Austria, West Germany, Czechoslovakia and the United States. Initially convicted in 1976 of a single murder, Unterweger began to write extensively while in prison. His work gained the attention of Austrian intellectuals, who interpreted it as evidence of his supposed rehabilitation. After significant lobbying, Unterweger was released on parole in 1990. Upon his release, he became a minor celebrity and worked as a playwright and journalist, but within months he resumed his killing spree. Unterweger hanged himself in prison after being convicted of nine more murders in June 1994. Early life Unterweger was born in Judenburg, Styria, to Theresia Unterweger, a barmaid and waitress from Klagenfurt. Theresia was a petty criminal who was jailed several times at for fraud, trespassing, theft, forgery and embezzlement, having received early relea ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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2015 Toronto International Film Festival
The 40th annual Toronto International Film Festival was held from 10 to 20 September 2015. On 28 July 2015 the first wave of films to be screened at the Festival was announced. Jean-Marc Vallée's ''Demolition'' starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Naomi Watts was the opening night film; '' Mr. Right'' by Paco Cabezas was the closing night film. The year's edition included two new sections called Platform and Primetime. At Platform, twelve films will be screened in front of a jury, with the best film of the program winning the C$25,000 Platform Prize. Film directors Claire Denis, Jia Zhangke, and Agnieszka Holland were selected as the jurors for this section. At Primetime, six high-quality television programs will be presented at public screenings with Question and Answer sessions with show creators. The lineups for the TIFF Docs, Vanguard, Midnight Madness, and Masters sections were announced on 11 August 2015. More than 100 films were added to the festival's programme on 18 Au ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Corinna Harfouch
Corinna Harfouch (; ; born 16 October 1954) is a German actress. Early life and education Harfouch was born in Suhl, East Germany, the daughter of the teacher Wolfgang Meffert and his wife Marianne (née Kleber). She worked as a nurse and studied acting at the National Theatre School in Berlin from 1978 to 1981. Career In 1994, Harfouch was a member of the jury at the 44th Berlin International Film Festival, chaired by Jeremy Thomas. After a few guest roles in the '' Tatort'' crime series, Harfouch became part of the permanent cast in 2023, succeeding Meret Becker on the series' Berlin team. Personal life Harfouch's first husband was a Lebanese computer scientist named Nabil Harfouch, with whom she has one daughter. From 1985 to 2007, she was married to Michael Gwisdek, with whom she has two sons, musician and actor Robert Gwisdek. Selected filmography *1986: '' The House on the River'' *1987: '' Yasemin'' *1988: ''Die Schauspielerin'' *1988: '' Treffen in Trave ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Birgit Minichmayr
Birgit Minichmayr (born 3 April 1977) is an Austrian actress born in Linz, Austria. She studied drama at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna. For her work in Maren Ade's film Everyone Else she won Silver Bear for Best Actress at 59th Berlin International Film Festival. She is the only Austrian actress to win this award in history of the festival and the first Austrian actress to win best actress award at a major European film festival (Cannes, Venice, Berlin) since 1956. She worked with several major European directors including Michael Haneke, Tom Tykwer and Jessica Hausner. Career Minichmayr had her first break with the Burgtheater in Vienna, where she appeared in numerous plays, including ''Der Reigen'' by Arthur Schnitzler (staged by Sven-Eric Bechtolf), ''Troilus and Cressida'' by William Shakespeare (staging by Declan Donnellan) and ''Der Färber und sein Zwillingsbruder'' by Johann Nestroy (staged by Karlheinz Hackl). She made her cinema debut in 2000 as Barbara Br ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Sarah Viktoria Frick
Sarah Viktoria Frick (born 28 July 1982) is a Swiss theatre and film actress. She has dual nationality with Liechtenstein. She left school at 16 to study at the Academy of Music and Theatre in Zürich and has gone on to a career celebrated for her performance as Puck in Shakespeare's ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'', among many other roles, primarily at the Burgtheater in Vienna. She has won the Nestroy Theatre Prize The Nestroy Theatre Prize is an Austrian theatre award named after the poet Johann Nestroy. In 2000, the city of Vienna decided to combine two less noticed theatre awards: the Kainz Medal and the Nestroy Ring for Viennese Satire. The prize honours ... several times. retrieved 31 August 2015 References [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Paulus Manker
Paulus Manker (born 25 January 1958) is an Austrian film director and actor, as well as an author and screenplay writer. Manker is considered one of the most maverick German-speaking actors, and polarizes public opinion like scarcely no other. He is perceived as a "staggering all-round talent on the Austrian cultural scene." Life Manker is the son of actress and theatre director Gustav Manker. He trained at the Max Reinhardt Drama School in Vienna, studying acting and directing. Manker made his film debut in ''Lemminge (Lemmings)'' (dir. Michael Haneke) in 1979. Manker's initial engagements while still at drama school took him to the Viennese Burgtheater (1979, Arthur Schnitzler's ''Comedy of Seduction'' with set design by Hans Hollein and costumes by Karl Lagerfeld), then to the Vienna Festival (1980, ''The Last Days of Mankind'' by Karl Kraus), and on to participation in the "co-determination model" at the Schauspielhaus Frankfurt (1980/81), to the Thalia Theater in Hamb ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Valerie Pachner
Valerie Pachner (born 26 June 1987) is an Austrian actress. Life and work Valerie Pachner grew up in Bad Schallerbach, Austria, and studied acting at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna from 2009 to 2013. She was then part of the ensemble cast at the Residenztheater in Munich, under artistic director Martin Kušej until 2017. Her work on stage was awarded twice in 2016. Pachner starred as the female lead in the 2015 film ''Bad Luck (2015), Bad Luck'' (directed by Thomas Woschitz), which was nominated for the Max-Ophüls-Preis. After that she appeared in Elisabeth Scharang's ''Jack (2015 film), Jack'' and Maria Schrader, Maria Schrader's biopic of the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, ''Vor der Morgenröte (Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe)'', playing Zweig's stepdaughter alongside Barbara Sukowa and Josef Hader as Zweig. For her portrayal of Egon Schiele, Egon Schiele's muse Wally Neuzil in Dieter Berner's ''Egon Schiele: Death and the Maiden'' she was awarded the Austrian Film Aw ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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2015 Films
2015 in film is an overview of events, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies, festivals, and a list of films released and notable deaths. Fox Film (now 20th Century Fox), Universal City, California and Universal Studios Lot celebrated their 100th anniversaries; '' The Sound of Music'' and Dolby celebrated their 50th anniversaries. Evaluation of the year Richard Brody of '' The New Yorker'' described 2015 as, "one of Hollywood's worst years" but also stated that it was also "a terrific year for movies over all". He emphasized that, "The anticipated Oscarizables have mainly ranged from the blandly enjoyable to the droningly disastrous. Partly, the problem is merely one of scheduling: most of Hollywood's inspired directors, the ones whose images have a natural musical sublimity and complexity, weren't on call this year. My list reflects the unfortunate accident of a calendar year with no release by many of the best American directors working in or out of th ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |