The Tobacconist
(Der Trafikant)
Year: 2018
Country:
AUSTRIA, GERMANY
Language:
German
Run Time:
108 minutes
When 17-year-old Franz is sent to Vienna to apprentice for a tobacconist, he has a lot to learn… not just about tobacco, but also about life in the big city and the transition from childhood to manhood. Franz is in luck after he meets Sigmund Freud (Bruno Ganz), a regular customer in the tobacco shop. And who better to help a boy on his life’s journey? As Franz and Freud form a friendship, Freud gives the young man advice about women, heartbreak, psychology, and the vivid dreams that haunt Franz at night. But on the brink of the Nazis’ arrival in Austria, with a rapidly changing political and social climate, the challenges Franz faces will become much bigger, and tremendously more dangerous. Based on the international bestseller by Robert Seethaler, THE TOBACCONIST is a beautiful and heart-breaking story of friendship, romance, resistance, and bravery. (In German with subtitles) —G.S.
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Competition
International Narrative Competition
Director
Nikolaus Leytner
Nikolaus Leytner was born in Graz, Austria. He studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. In collaboration with other Austrian filmmakers, Leytner founded the Academy of Austrian Film in 2009.
Filmography
Drei Herren (1998), Lemming's First Case (2009), Landkrimi: Der Tote im See (2018), THE TOBACCONIST (2018)
Producers
Dieter Pochlatko, Jakob Pochlatko, Ralf Zimmermann
Screenwriting
Klaus Richter, Nikolaus Leytner
Cinematography
Hermann Dunzendorfer
Editing
Bettina Mazakarini
Principal Cast
Bruno Ganz, Johannes Krisch, Regina Fritsch, Emma Drogunova, Simon Morzé
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