Saarland: Max Ophüls Prize Film Festival opens

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Saarland
Max Ophüls Prize Film Festival opens

The Max Ophüls Prize film festival in Saarbrücken opens with Adrian Goiginger’s film “Rickerl – Music is at most a hobby”. photo

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The Max Ophüls Prize Festival stands for the discovery of young talent. Until Sunday, 131 films will be shown in 226 screenings in seven venues – including four in the Saarland state capital.

For the Austrian director and screenwriter For Adrian Goiginger (32), it is special for several reasons that his film was selected for the opening of the 45th Max Ophüls Prize (MOP) film festival on Monday evening. On the one hand, of course, he sees it as an honor, but on the other hand, his participation in the MOP is a first for him: “I’ve never been there because all of my films had been rejected before,” the 32-year-old revealed to the German Press Agency. He previously applied for short films and also the feature films “The Best of All Worlds” and “Märzengrund”.

In his new film “Rickerl – Music is at most a hobby”, Goiginger stages a melancholic, humorous father-son story with a lot of music and emotions. The Austrian singer-songwriter Voodoo Jürgens plays the leading role. The tragicomedy, which was nominated for the Bavarian Film Prize and received 50,000 euros, will be released in German cinemas on February 1st.

Goiginger is looking forward to meeting people at the festival and thinks it’s “great that there is such a big, prestigious young talent festival.” That is not a given: “We don’t have anything like that in Austria!”

dpa

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