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Ulrich Maria Seidl is an Austrian film director, writer and producer.

His films aren't for everyone. With a tar-blackly comical spirit, Seidl depicts a modern universe that is bleak, crude, confrontational, mundane, explicit, and bracingly real. Seidl doesn’t just blur the line between documentary and narrative. He erases it. He does this so confoundingly well, in fact, that the question of “is it fact or fiction?” becomes utterly irrelevant when discussing his work.

Seidl's overarching directorial mission is to present a nearly hellish vision of modern life at its most grotesquely mundane. Rather than setting up more traditionally artificial climaxes and confrontations, he chooses instead to depict scenes from everyday life—some dramatic, most not—in which characters resort to depraved behavior out of what appears to be either boredom or a historically ingrained sense of purposelessness.

18 x DVD | PAL | 2040 minutes | 92.4 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Deutsch
Subtitles: English, Deutsch
Genre: Drama, Documentary, Short

Disc 1
-- One Forty (Einsvierzig) 1980
-- The Prom (Der Ball) 1982
-- Brothers, Let Us Be Merry (Bruder, lasst uns lustig sein) 2006

Disc 2
-- The Last Real Men (Die letzten Manner) 1994
-- Fun Without Limits (Spass ohne Grenzen) 1998

Disc 3
-- Pictures at an Exhibition (Bilder einer Ausstellung) 1996
-- The Bosom Friend (Der Busenfreund) 1997

Disc 4
-- Good News (Good News: Von Kolporteuren, toten Hunden und anderen Wienern) 1990

Disc 5
-- Losses to Be Expected (Mit Verlust ist zu rechnen) 1992

Disc 6
-- Animal Love (Tierische Liebe) 1996

Disc 7
-- Models 1999

Disc 8
-- Dog Days (Hundstage) 2001

Disc 9
-- State of the Nation (Zur Lage: Osterreich in sechs Kapiteln) 2002
-- War in Vienna (Krieg in Wien) 1989

Disc 10
-- Jesus, You Know (Jesus, Du weisst) 2003

Disc 11
-- Import Export 2007

Disc 12
-- Paradise: Love (Paradies: Liebe) 2012

Disc 13
-- Paradise: Faith (Paradies: Glaube) 2012

Disc 14
-- Paradise: Hope (Paradies: Hoffnung) 2013

Disc 15
-- In the Basement (Im Keller) 2014

Disc 16
-- Safari 2016

Discs 17&18
-- Bonus: Interviews, deleted scenes...