WITH DEATH AS THE ONLY CERTAIN FAITH
(Der Kärntner spricht Deutsch)
Austria, documentary, 2007; 60 min.
In Slovenian and German with English sub-titles

 

Director: Andrina Mracnikar
Screenwriter: Andrina Mracnikar
Producer: Gregor Centner; Filmakademie Wien
Director of Photography: Thomas Marschall
Editor: Karin Hammer, Paul Schoen
Featured: Anton Pecnik, Elisabeth Sitter-Ogris, Ciril Sadovnik, Peter Kuhar, Lipej Kolenik, Anna Jug, Maria Olip

Synopsis:
Austrian history, as told by people who have rarely been asked about it before: Carinthian Slovenians, who were both in the resistance and Wehrmacht, fought underground with the partisans and were deported to labor and concentration camps; people who survived massacres and lived to experience the aftermath of the war. Focusing on the war years of 1939-45, the film intertwines individual stories and destinies to reconstruct a forgotten history.

Festivals and Awards:
City of Women Festival, Ljubljana, Slovenia 2007
Graz Diagonale Festival – Youth Jury Award
Viennale - Vienna Int. Film Festival 2007
Skomrahi Festival, Skopje, Macedonia 2007

Director Andrina Mracnikar
Born in Hallein in 1981, Andrina spent part of her life in Ljubljana, and part with her grandmother in Austrian Carinthia. In 2000, after graduating from a Slovenian high school in Klagenfurt/Celovec, she studied film direction in AGRFT, the Academy for Theater, Radio, Film and Television in Ljubljana. Since 2002, she has been studying film direction at the University for Music and Representational Arts in Vienna. In her award-winning first film, “Andri 1924-1944”, she related the story of her grandmother’s younger brother, a partisan and family hero who was executed by the Nazis in 1944.

Filmography:
Rosi Oder Das Feuer (Austria, 2004)
Meine Stimme Wäre Still (Austria, 2003)
Andri 1924-1944 (Austria, 2003)

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Andrina Mracnikar
andrinamracnikar@hotmail.com