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Paul Harather

Paul Harather
Josef Hader
Alfred Dorfer

Josef Hader, Alfred Dorfer

Hans Selikovsky

Ulrich Sinn

Dor Film
  • 1993 (1993)

90 minutes

Austria

German

Plot[edit]

The main characters are Heinz Bösel (Josef Hader) and Kurt Fellner (Alfred Dorfer), who work for the tourist office in Lower Austria assessing guesthouses. Bösel is fond of beer and occasionally ill-behaved, while Fellner is more intellectual and refined, constantly asking his colleague Trivial Pursuit questions. However, they gradually bond as they travel around Austria.


Later in the film, Fellner is taken ill and is diagnosed with advanced testicular cancer. Bösel helps Fellner fulfil his last wishes, which include playing on an organ and going into the woods one last time to hear the birds. Fellner dies in his friend's arms, but the film ends optimistically when Bösel meets an Indian man who seems to be the reincarnation of his friend.

Thomas Pluch Screenplay Prize to Alfred Dorfer and Josef Hader, 1993

Grand prize of the in 1994

Santa Barbara International Film Festival

At the Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis in 1994, Prize of the Saarland Premier to director Paul Harather, and audience prize

Österreichischer Filmpreis in 1994

- Heinzi Bösel

Josef Hader

- Kurt Fellner

Alfred Dorfer

- Kirchingerwirt

Karl Markovics

Cinema of Austria

List of submissions to the 66th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film

List of Austrian submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

at IMDb

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