Fox In A Hole - EastWest Filmdistribution GmbH

Original Title: FUCHS IM BAU

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Short Synopsis

When Fuchs starts his new job as a teacher in a prison school, replacing the old and unconventional teacher Berger against her will, he is forced to confront his biggest fear, triggered by the mysterious, withdrawn inmate Samira.

Synopsis

The ambitious middle school teacher HANNES FUCHS (39) is assigned to a prison school alongside the older prison schoolteacher ELISABETH BERGER (60) whose unconventional methods keep her inmate students busy and on their toes. For WEBER (54) the department commander of the juvenile detention wing, Berger is a security risk.

Fuchs is eager to prove himself a suitable prison teacher, but soon realizes that Berger won’t let anyone get too close. While Weber tries to pit both teachers against each other, Berger slowly makes Fuchs her accomplice. When Fuchs instructs the inmates alone for the first time, it comes to an inevitable confrontation between him and the class…

Technical Information

2020; Drama; Austria; 103 minutes; DCP, ProResHQ; Aspect Ratio: 2.39:1; Mix: 5.1; Original Language: German; Subtitles: English

Credits

DIRECTOR & SCREENPLAY
Arman T. Riahi

CINEMATOGRAPHY
Mario Minichmayr

PRODUCTION DESIGN
Martin Reiter

SOUND
Atanas Tcholakov

EDITING
Karina Ressler

SCORE
Karwan Marouf

COSTUME DESIGN
Monika Buttinger

MAKE-UP
Birgit Beranek

CASTING
Nicole Schmied

PRODUCTION MANAGER
Christine Schwarzinger

PRODUCER
Arash T. Riahi & Karin C. Berger

PRODUCTION COMPANY
Golden Girls

Cast

Hannes Fuchs
Aleksandar Petrovic

Elisabeth Berger
Maria Hofstätter

Samira Spahic
Luna Jordan

Weber
Andreas Lust

Tara Ketabi
Sibel Kekilli

Rudolf Vanicek
Karl Fischer

Leyla
Anica Dobra

Director

Arman T. Riahi
Director, scriptwriter, dramatic advisor

Arman T. Riahi was born in Iran and grew up in Vienna, Austria, where he directed his first short films as a teenager. He studied media technologies and worked as a screen- and graphic designer in London & Vienna. His first cinema doc Dark Head (2011) opened the documentary competition of the 17th Sarajevo FF, won the Audience Award at the Diagonale Festival of Austrian Film and the Special Jury Mention Award at the Docudays Beirut Int’l Documentary FF. His second cinema doc Everyday Rebellion (2014), co-directed with his brother Arash, was screened at over 60 international film festivals. Riahi’s first feature film, the comedy The Migrumpies, has won Audience Awards in Nashville and Saarbrücken, the ROMY for Best Script and was one of the most successful Austrian cinema movies of 2017 with over 90.000 admissions. In 2019, it was successfully adapted by Riahi, Petrović and Rahoma for theaters. Since 2013, Riahi is a lecturer at the masterclass Film/TV of the University of Applied Sciences for Media Technology in St. Pölten.

Selected Works

2020
Fox In A Hole (Drama, Written & Directed by Arman T. Riahi, 103 Min.) Award of the Youth Jury, Best Director and Best Script (Fritz-Raff-Drehbuchpreis) at 42nd Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis

2019
The Migrumpies (stage play for Viennese Theater in der Josefstadt)

2017
The Migrumpies (Comedy, 90min, Written & Directed by Arman T. Riahi, co-written by Aleksandar Petrović and Faris Rahoma)

2016
Kinders (Cinema Documentary, 90min, co-written and -directed with Arash T. Riahi), Special Jury Prize Sarajevo Film Festival 2017, Diagonale ’16 Audience Award

2014
Everyday Rebellion (Cinema Documentary, 52/118min, co-written and directed with Arash T. Riahi), CPH:DOX 2013 Politiken Audience Award, Cinema for Peace Award, IDFA Panorama, Biennale 2013 BEN Best Transmedia Project, ARTE Pixel Pitch Prize 2012 Best Cross-Media Project & over 60 international film festivals)

2011
Dark Head (Cinema Documentary, 90min) Diagonale 2011 Audience Award; Special Jury Mention Award Docudays Beirut Int’l Documentary Film Festival; Opening Film documentary competition Sarajevo FF)