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The Best Orchestra In The World

Austria, 2020, 13 minutes, Color, German; Turkish dubbed, Turkish captioned, English subtitled


2021 Bamberger Kurzfilmtage;  Best Short Fiction Film Watersprite FF Cambridge;  Best Fiction Award Blackbird FF; Most Original Film 2020 Malatesta SFF;  Special Mention Brisbane FF;  Special Jury Award Max Ophüls Ödülleri Max Ophüls Award;  Best Short Film

Director:  Henning Backhaus

Screenplay: Henning Backhaus, Rafael Haider, Albert Meisl

Cinematography: Matthias Halibrand

Krgu Editing: Jana Libnik

Music: Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, Johann Sebastian Bach, Henning Backhaus

Production: Institut für Film und Fernsehen, Filmakademie Wien

Cast: Thomas Mraz, Jörn Hentschel, Peter Huemer, Dominic Oley, Richard Obermayr, Helen Hagmueller

Born in Dresden, Germany. He moved to Vienna to study directing with the director Michael Haneke at the Filmakademie Wien. In 2013 he shot his film debut Local Heroes. From 2013 to 2018 he was an assistant director at the Vienna State Opera.