(Orig. “Pupperl”)
Format: Short Film
Genre: Drama, Coming-of-age
Length: 20 min
Country: Austria
Year: 2021
Synopsis:
Marion leads an unconventional life. While she secretly dreams of becoming an actress, she finds herself being stuck behind the curtains of a puppet theatre.
In order to pay the bills and financially support her single mother, she chooses a highly stigmatised profession: sex work.
Battling prejudices and biases her motto is: “Smile, unless a man tells you to do so.”
Director’s note:
Unsolicited catcalls, humiliation, harassment.
Girls and women predestined and expected to be polite, honourable, innocent and smiling.
Being able to choose one’s profession freely means: “Her body, her choice.”
With:
Maria Christina Felzmann
Isabella Hutsteiner | Michael Glantschnig | Tony Matzl | Franz Josef Danner | Kurt Schreder | Kudra Owens
Writer, Producer, Director: Chiara Schreder
Director of Photography: Heidi Zimmermann
Producers: Sabine Tatzgern, Stella Hofstadler
Executive Producers: Kurt Schreder
First Assistant Director: Verena Graf
Gaffer: Paulo de Biasi
Editor: Werner Brunthaler
Set-Photographer: Kamilla Kuzmina, Dennis Schlaghuber
And many, many more!
In partnership with Cine-cloud
Funded by the city of Vienna “Stadt Wien Kultur”
CHIARA SCHREDER 