Meine Schwester Maria

Deutschland Österreich Schweiz 2001/2002 Dokumentarfilm

Summary

My Sister Maria

The actor and director Maximilian Schell portrays his 76 year old sister, actress Maria Schell, who lives alone and marked by illness on a mountain farm in Carinthia - surrounded by several televisions showing her old films. He recalls her successes and strokes of fate, shows her much-vaunted vulnerability as well as her strength. He combines film excerpts and interviews with staged scenes from the present; similar to his earlier portrait of Marlene Dietrich, but much closer to the protagonist. The people surrounding her, such as the housekeeper or the inhabitants of the nearby village, speak written dialogues, as does Maria Schell herself - thus her brother lets her once again play the "role of her life". 

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Credits

All Credits

Director of photography

2nd Camera unit

Steadycam operator

Still photography

Lighting design

Prop master

Costume design

Sound editor

Foley artist

Research

Line producer

Unit production manager

Location manager

Production coordinator

Duration:
90 min
Format:
35mm, 1:1,85
Video/Audio:
Eastmancolor + s/w, Dolby
Screening:

Uraufführung (AT): 27.02.2002, Wien, Künstlerhauskino;
Kinostart (DE): 30.05.2002;
TV-Erstsendung (DE FR): 18.05.2005, Arte

Titles

  • Originaltitel (DE AT CH) Meine Schwester Maria

Versions

Original

Duration:
90 min
Format:
35mm, 1:1,85
Video/Audio:
Eastmancolor + s/w, Dolby
Screening:

Uraufführung (AT): 27.02.2002, Wien, Künstlerhauskino;
Kinostart (DE): 30.05.2002;
TV-Erstsendung (DE FR): 18.05.2005, Arte