SPARTA
Feature Film, AT/FR/DE 2022, Farbe, 99 min., OmdU
Diagonale 2023
Director: Ulrich Seidl
Script: Ulrich Seidl, Veronika Franz
Cast: Georg Friedrich, Florentina Elena Pop, Hans-Michael Rehberg, Marius Ignat, Octavian-Nicolae Cocis
Camera: Wolfgang Thaler, Serafin Spitzer
Editor: Monika Willi
Location Sound: Klaus Kellermann
Sounddesign: Matz Müller
Production Design: Andreas Donhauser, Renate Martin
Costumes: Tanja Hausner
Additional Credits: Casting: Henri Steinmetz
Additional Editing: Andrea Wagner
Farben, Mastering: Andi Winter
Re-recording: Tobias Fleig
Executive Producers DE, FR: Sarah Nagel, Isabell Wiegand | Executive Producers: Dan Wechsler, Jamal Zeinal-Zade, Andreas
Roald | Associate Producer: Veronika Franz | Producers: Philippe Bober, Michel Merkt | Producer: Ulrich Seidl |
Producers: Ulrich Seidl, Philippe Bober, Michel Merkt
Production: Ulrich Seidl Filmproduktion GmbH
Co-production: In Koproduktion mit Bayerischer Rundfunk, Arte France Cinéma
in collaboration with Arte | In Koproduktion mit Essential Films, Parisienne de Production
After RIMINI, Ulrich Seidl’s most recent work completes his diptych about two brothers who must face long repressed truths abroad. SPARTA tells the story of Ewald, in his mid-forties, who escapes an unhappy relationship and tries to make a fresh start in a poor region of Romania. A superb film about the inescapability of one’s own past and the pain of finding oneself.