ANOTHER COIN FOR THE MERRY-GO-ROUND

By Hannes STARZ

FILMLADEN GMBH - as DISTR Theatrical, DVD-video, VOD, AUSTRIA

Drama - Completed 2021

Anna (Valerie Pachner) loves her youth, her friends, drugs, parties and music. She struggles with the signs, which are ever harder to overlook, that it’s time for her, too, to grow up, and does everything to escape this reality. But then a momentous event suddenly causes her routine to collapse.

Festivals
& Awards

Diagonale 2021
Best Sound Design
Internationale Hofer Filmtage 2021
KINO – Mostra de Cinema de Expressão Alemã 2022
Competition
    • Year of production
    • 2021
    • Genres
    • Drama, Musical, First film
    • Countries
    • AUSTRIA
    • Languages
    • GERMAN, ENGLISH
    • Budget
    • 0.3 - 0.6 M$
    • Duration
    • 92 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Hannes STARZ
    • Producer(s)
    • Gabriele KRANZELBINDER (KGP FILMPRODUKTION), Barbara PICHLER (KGP FILMPRODUKTION)
    • Synopsis
    • Anna, Niko, Ilias, and Jools are flirting with the Viennese underground music scene. They like the do-it-yourself style and are trying to create something with the band BLACK CANDY, even though they do not really know how to play their instruments. They are rather familiar with the feeling of buying a skateboard at the age of almost thirty and pulling all-nighters around the Viennese Gürtel.

      But ever since a wheelchair has been thrust into their lives like a foreign body, something has changed. Actually, it changed much earlier. Above all, Anna finds it difficult to live with the fact that even a FUGAZI record no longer has the same power after the umpteenth run-through as it did the first time she heard it. That the needle of the record player has jumped into an endless groove in which she as a person is stuck. “If that’s reality, then I don’t want it.”

      They are trying to ignore the changes, making excuses for themselves and refusing to acknowledge that their parents no longer have spare change for the carousel and it is time to pull a coin out of their own pockets.

      The story of a harsh coming-of-age with Voodoo Jürgens and appearances by Alicia Edelweiss, Bulbul and others.