Vaterspiel


1h 57m 2009

Brief Synopsis

Rupert is 35-years-old and the son of a social democrat minister. Ridden with guilt towards his mother and contemptuous of his corrupt father who has abandoned the family for a younger woman, Rupert spends his time developing a father-destroying computer game. A letter from an old college friend and

Film Details

Also Known As
Father Game, The, Kill Daddy Good Night, Oedipe: le jeu
Genre
Adaptation
Drama
Family
Foreign
Release Date
2009
Production Company
Ard Degeto; Das Land Niederosterreich; Eurimages; Film und Medienstiftung NRW; Filmfonds Wien; Irish Film Board; Mfg Baden-Württemberg; Osterreichischer Rundfunk Fernsehen (Orf); Tatfilm Gmbh; Österreichisches Filminstitut
Distribution Company
Alamode Film; K-Films AmTrique; K-Films AmTrique

Technical Specs

Duration
1h 57m

Synopsis

Rupert is 35-years-old and the son of a social democrat minister. Ridden with guilt towards his mother and contemptuous of his corrupt father who has abandoned the family for a younger woman, Rupert spends his time developing a father-destroying computer game. A letter from an old college friend and unfulfilled love, Mimi, sees him heading for New York, together with the game which he hopes to sell. But he soon discovers he's there to help Mimi renovate a house. A house that just so happens to be where her grandfather, a Lithuanian war criminal, is hiding from his pursuers.

Film Details

Also Known As
Father Game, The, Kill Daddy Good Night, Oedipe: le jeu
Genre
Adaptation
Drama
Family
Foreign
Release Date
2009
Production Company
Ard Degeto; Das Land Niederosterreich; Eurimages; Film und Medienstiftung NRW; Filmfonds Wien; Irish Film Board; Mfg Baden-Württemberg; Osterreichischer Rundfunk Fernsehen (Orf); Tatfilm Gmbh; Österreichisches Filminstitut
Distribution Company
Alamode Film; K-Films AmTrique; K-Films AmTrique

Technical Specs

Duration
1h 57m

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Miscellaneous Notes

Released in United States February 2009

Shown at Berlin International Film Festival (Panorama Special) February 5-15, 2009.

Based on the novel "Das Vaterspiel" by Josef Haslinger; published by S. Fischer, 2000.

Released in United States February 2009 (Shown at Berlin International Film Festival (Panorama Special) February 5-15, 2009.)