Synopsis
Six episodes. Six cities. Six encounters with love in its fragile, absurd, cruel and beautiful manifestations.
Technical Information
2009; Drama / Musical; Austria / Luxembourg / Serbia; 80 minutes; DCP, ProResHQ, 35mm; Aspect Ratio: 1,85:1; Mix: 5.1; Original Language: Multiple languages
DIRECTOR & WRITER
Thomas Woschitz
MUSIC
Naked Lunch
EDITOR
Thomas Woschitz,
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Enzo Brandner
PRODUCER
Gabriele Kranzelbinder
UPM
Marie Tappero
Co-Producer
Jeanne Geiben
Miroslav Mogorović
KGP FILMPRODUKTION GmbH
CAST (Selection)
Anica Dobra
Dušan Ašković
Damien Smith
Sri Gordon
Daniel Plier
Sascha Migge
Liza Machover
Samir “RPZ” Menouar
Magda Gomes
Erom Cordeiro
Kyoichi Komoto
Makiko Kawai
Thomas Woschitz
Thomas Woschitz (1968) is an Austrian director, screenwriter and editor. He studied at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome, Italy and directed several short films, which have all been shown at numerous festivals, such as Cannes Film Festival Girls and Cars in a Colored New World (2004), Venice Blindgänger (1996) and Locarno Die Josef Trilogie (2004). In 2009 he won the renowned “Max Ophüls Prize” for his first feature film Universalove (2008), which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival and at the Berlin Int. Filmfestival 2009. His second film Bad Luck (2015), a black comedy thriller, (Max Ophüls Festival, Shanghai, Diagonal Award 2009) was acclaimed by critics as “a jewel of a film”. His latest film is The Million Dollar Bet (2024), a dramatic comedy in Las Vegas.
– IMDb mini biography by: Thomas Woschitz
Original Title: Universalove
Synopsis
Six films, six cities, six stories about love.
In Marseille. In Tokyo. In Rio de Janeiro. In Belgrade. In Brooklyn. In Luxembourg.
People searching for love. Finding it. Losing it. Desiring it. Fearing it. Dreaming it.
Love in all its forms – tender, violent, absurd, sincere.
Connected by the music of Naked Lunch, which flows through the film like an invisible thread.
