Wo ist Ida
Documentary Film, AT/GR/IL/PT 2023, Schwarzweiß, 70 min., OmeU
Diagonale 2023

Director, Camera, Editor: Petra Zöpnek
Script: Petra Zöpnek (nach Texten von Ida Pfeiffer)
Cast: Susanne Berger, Takis Asprakis, Susanne Trummer, Eva Sommer, Stefan Mayer, Thomas Graner, Thomas Kramar, Bernhard Bastien, Nadine Quittner, Christian Pulker, Helmuth Raith, Silvester Atzmüller, Noberto Spera, Luis Miguel Rodrigues Martins, Yingying Wang, Ramona Wang, Lazaridis Apostolos, Hildegard Winkler, Thaddäus Podgorski jun., Kambis Mahdavian
Music: Gil Chéri
Sounddesign: Gilbert Handler
Costumes: Christoph Birkner
Additional Credits: Sprecherin: Ulli Maier
Schauspieltraining: Susanne Lietzow
Lichtbestimmung: Kurt Hennrich
Produktionsleitung: Susanne Berger
gefördert von: Stadt Wien/Kultur, Bundesministerium Kunst, Kultur, öffentlicher Dienst und Sport
Producers: Petra Zöpnek
Ida strolls down the Donaukanal in Biedermeier dresses and hip sunglasses. At the age of fourty-four, she leaves behind her life as a housewife to follow her urge to see the world. Starting from historical travelogues, simulated archive material, and playful anachronisms, collages, and animations, Wo ist Ida tells fragments of what Ida Pfeiffer might have seen and experienced when she became the first woman to travel alone around the world in the 1840s and 1850s.