HAPPY LANDING
Germans in Vienna
SCRIPTWRITER and DIRECTOR Katrin Mackowski
CAMERA Marco Zimprich
SOUND Wolfgang Seehofer
PRODUCTION COORDINATOR Clemens Loinger
TV-PRODUCER Peter Thomsen
FORMAT HDTV • 30’
PRODUCED 2010
COMPLETED September 2010
Synopsis
Germans are now the largest group of foreigners in Austria. Above all, they are attracted to the capital city, Vienna. For some, it is a new start in an unfamiliar world: a strange dialect, prejudices, differences in mentality. - The Viennese essayist Franz Schuh calls it culture shock.
"Happy landing" is a portrait of how Germans make their way in Vienna. It portrays their everyday lives and observes how the co-existence between Viennese and Germans blends into a unique mixture of distance and proximity.
