Still from “Night of a 1000 Hours”, Amira Casar. Camera: Christian Berger

Still from “Night of a 1000 Hours”, Amira Casar, Laurence Rupp. Camera: Christian Berger

Still from “Night of a 1000 Hours”. Camera: Christian Berger

Still from “Night of a 1000 Hours”, Amira Casar. Camera: Christian Berger

Still from “Night of a 1000 Hours”, Amira Casar, Laurence Rupp. Camera: Christian Berger

Still from “Night of a 1000 Hours”, Lukas Miko. Camera: Christian Berger

Still from “Night of a 1000 Hours”, Laurence Rupp. Camera: Christian Berger

Still from “Night of a 1000 Hours”, Lukas Miko, Laurence Rupp. Camera: Christian Berger

Virgil Widrich on the set of “Night of a 1000 Hours”, 2015. Photo: Ricardo Vaz Palma

“Night of a 1000 Hours”, test shooting in November 2014 in Utrecht.

“Night of a 1000 Hours”: Shooting in front of rear projections, 2015. Photo: Riccardo Vaz Palma

“Night of a 1000 Hours”, test shooting in October 2014 in Utrecht.

“Night of a 1000 Hours”, Jean-Claude Carrière and Virgil Widrich in Paris, October 2011.

Film poster “Night of a 1000 Hours”, 2016

Chinese film poster “Night of a 1000 Hours”, 2016

“Night of a 1000 Hours”: scene composition by Virgil Widrich, 2014

“Night of a 1000 Hours”: first tests with Christian Berger, October 2013

“Night of a 1000 Hours”: concept by Christina Schaffer, 2015

“Night of a 1000 Hours”: corrections by Christina Schaffer, 2015

“Night of a 1000 Hours”: Shooting in front of rear projections, 2015. Photo: Riccardo Vaz Palma

“Night of a 1000 Hours”, first shooting day on 15.1.2015 at the site of Vienna’s flee market.

“Night of a 1000 Hours”: panoramic photo of the surroundings of the house, 2015

Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu and Virgil Widrich at Busan International Film Festival on October 9th, 2016, photo: Anuj Madan

Night of a 1000 Hours

A family, a night, a murder and a forbidden passion: When the Ullich family meets and their deceased ancestors appear, the events in their Viennese palace turn over.

Year: 2016
Type: Film
Screenings: 51
Awards: ★ 1

Lux/A/NL 2016, feature film, DCP, 1:2,39, Dolby Digital
Length: 92 min.

When the ambitious Philip takes over the running of the family business from his father, he finds himself confronted by the mysterious reappearance of his dead ancestors. In the course of a long night, during which there are a murder, an illicit love affair and a game with false identities, Philip uncovers a closely guarded family secret.

Winner of “Flash Forward Audience Award” at Busan International Film Festival 2016!

Link to Trailer and “Making-of”

Press & reviews

tanzschrift.at: Virgil Widrich — Die Nacht der 1000 Stunden — 10.11.2016
Cineuropa: Virgil Widrich • Director — “We made magic on the set” — 19.10.2016
Cineuropa: “Night of a 1000 Hours” — A fantastical take on the dark secrets of a family and a country — 17.10.2016

Credits

Writer & director: Virgil Widrich

Producers: Bady Minck, Alexander Ivanceanu, Hanneke Niens, Hans de Wolf, Arash T. Riahi, Raphael Barth

Script consultant: Jean-Claude Carrière

DOP: Christian Berger

Production Design: Christina Schaffer

Editing: Pia Dumont

Music: Siegfried Friedrich

Costume design: Alette Kraan

Cast: Laurence Rupp, Amira Casar, Udo Samel, Johann Adam Oest, Elisabeth Rath, Luc Feit, Josiane Peiffer, Linde Prelog, Barbara Petritsch, Claire Johnston, Lukas Miko, Brigitte Urhausen

Project development in cooperation with Virgil Widrich Film

Production: Amour Fou Vienna/Luxembourg, KeyFilm Amsterdam, Golden Girls

Supported by Film Fund Luxembourg, Österreichisches Filminstitut, Filmstandort Austria, ORF Film/Fernseh-Abkommen, Filmfonds Wien, Land Salzburg, Stadt Salzburg, Netherlands Film Fund, Netherlands Film Production Incentive, IDM Südtirol, MIBAC Roma, Eurimages, Media, ALGOA, Sources

World sales: Picture Tree International

Events, worldwide.

92 events total

November 11, 202011.11.2020

Metro Kinokulturhaus – Filmarchiv Austria – Vienna – Austria
September 27, 201927.09.2019

Cinéma Les Variétés – Marseille – France
February 7, 201907.02.2019

Ateliers Varan – 6. Impasse de Mont-Louis – Paris – France
December 13, 201813.12.2018

Festival Droits des Femmes et Cinéma – Institut Universitaire Elie Wiesel – Paris – France
November 28, 201828.11.2018

Vienna – Austria
September 22, 201822.09.2018

Luxembourg – Luxembourg
September 22, 201822.09.2018

Lëtzebuerger Filmpräis – Luxembourg – Luxembourg
September 22, 201822.09.2018

Lëtzebuerger Filmpräis – Luxembourg – Luxembourg
February 23, 201823.02.2018

Master class Virgil Widrich at the Université Rennes 2: In collaboration with *Clair obscur - Festival Travelling* and *la revue Répliques*. Presented by Erwan Floch’ lay and Nicolas Thévenin from *la revue Répliques*. In the presence of Virgil Widrich, director. Presentation of three short films: Copy Shop (2001,12', black-and-white), Fast Film (2003,14', colour), Back Track (2015,7', colour, 3D). 23.2.2018,14:00 to 18:00 o’ clock Université Rennes 2 - Auditorium du Tambour Place du recteur Henri Le Moal CS 24307 - 35043 Rennes cedex Admission free
February 23, 201823.02.2018

Travelling – Clair Obscur – Festival de cinéma de Rennes Métropole – Rennes – France
February 20, 201820.02.2018

“Virgil Widrich - Work and Method”: Lecture at the Luxembourg City Film Festival, Casino Luxembourg, 41, Rue Notre Dame, 2240 Luxembourg, 20.02.2018 at 6:30 pm.
January 23, 201823.01.2018

Kralja Milana 7 – EU Info Center – Belgrade – Serbia
December 13, 201713.12.2017

“Spaced out! Film Spaces in the Digital Age” – An event organised by frame (o)ut, dotdotdot and the Filmarchiv Austria – Vienna – Austria
December 2, 201702.12.2017

European Union Film Festival – National Gallery of Canada – Ottawa – Canada
November 29, 201729.11.2017

European Union Film Festival – Cinematheque Vancouver – Vancouver – Canada
November 17, 201717.11.2017

European Film Festival – Ottawa – Canada
November 17, 201717.11.2017

European Union Film Festival – “The Royal” – Toronto – Canada
November 2–5, 201702.–05.11.2017

Goethe Institut, Film Neu Film Festival – Washington – USA
September 23–30, 201723.–30.09.2017

Manaki Brothers Film Festival – Bitola – North Macedonia
September 9–16, 201709.–16.09.2017

Split Film Festival – Split – Croatia
July 11, 201711.07.2017

Sotto le stelle dell’Austria 2017 – Forum austriaco di cultura – Austrian Cultural Forum Rome
June 17–26, 201717.–26.06.2017

20th Shanghai International Film Festival – Shanghai – China
June 12–17, 201712.–17.06.2017

European Film Festival – Šabac – Serbia
June 11, 201711.06.2017

Summary of the c-tv conference “Exploring Visionary Media Technologies” at the Fachhochschule St. Pölten with a contribution by Virgil Widrich, “The film set as cinema: digital live projections in the feature film production”: 11.6.2017, 8:35 on ORF III.
June 6–12, 201706.–12.06.2017

European Film Festival – Dom kulture Stevan Mokranjac – Negotinu – Serbia
June 2–11, 201702.–11.06.2017

TIFF 16 – Transilvania International Film Festival – Focus on Young Austrian Cinema – Cluj-Napoca – Romania
May 26 – June 1, 201726.05.–01.06.2017

European Film Festival – Leskovac – Serbia
May 11–16, 201711.–16.05.2017

European Film Festival – Kupina, Niski kulturni centar – Nis – Serbia
May 11, 201711.05.2017

Amsterdam – The Netherlands
May 9, 201709.05.2017

Speaker at the c-tv conference “Exploring Visionary Media Technologies” at the Fachhochschule St. Pölten: “The film set as cinema: digital live projections in the feature film production”. Fachhochschule St. Pölten, Großer Festsaal, Matthias Corvinus-Straße 15, 3100 St. Pölten, 9.5.2017, 10 am to 5 pm.
May 8–15, 201708.–15.05.2017

European Film Festival – Kulturni centar grada Novog Sada – Novi Sad – Serbia
April 22–29, 201722.–29.04.2017

Bari International Film Festival – Bari – Italy
April 19–23, 201719.–23.04.2017

Moskow Austrian Film Festival – New Austrian Cinema – Moscow – Russia
April 16–23, 201716.–23.04.2017

“Die Nacht der 1000 Stunden” – Beijing – China
April 7–16, 201707.–16.04.2017

Taipei Golden Horse Fantastic Film Festival 2017 – Taipei – Taiwan
April 5–9, 201705.–09.04.2017

Bolzano Filmfestival – Bozen – Bolzano – Italy
April 5–9, 201705.–09.04.2017

Curaçao International Film Festival Rotterdam – Rotterdam – The Netherlands
April 4, 201704.04.2017

Presentation of a case study for the screenplay development of “Night of a 1000 Hours” which was carried out partly within Sources2. Hotel Ecluse, Luxembourg, 4.4.2017 at 18:00.
April 1–9, 201701.–09.04.2017

Krimitage – Kommunales Kino Esslingen – Esslingen – Germany
April 1, 201701.04.2017

Lecture at “Diagonale im Dialog”: Virgil Widrich (filmmaker) and Christian Berger (camera) present film excerpts and unpublished material from the spectacular making of *Night of the 1000 Hours*. Gaming and VR meets cinema. Free entrance, counting tickets at the box office. Sat 1 April 2017, 2 pm, Schubertkino 3, Graz
March 29, 201729.03.2017

Luxembourg – Luxembourg
March 29, 201729.03.2017

Lecture: “The smallest common denominator in the largest machine in the world – Explorations in the ‘Large Hadron Collider’ of CERN”, 29.3.2017, 13:00. Rotary Wien-Süd, Hotel Bristol, Kärntner Ring 1, 1010 Vienna
March 28 – April 2, 201728.03.–02.04.2017

Diagonale 2017 – Festival of Austrian Films – Graz – Austria
March 24, 201724.03.2017

An evening with Virgil Widrich in conversation with Festival Curator Stephanie Falkeis. Austrian Cultural Forum New York, 11 E 52nd St, New York, NY 10022, USA. 24.3.2017, 8 p.m.
March 21–27, 201721.–27.03.2017

LET’S CEE Film Festival – Austria Exhibition – Vienna – Austria
March 2–12, 201702.–12.03.2017

7th Luxembourg City Film Festival – Luxembourg – Luxembourg
February 24 – March 4, 201724.02.–04.03.2017

37th Oporto International Film Festival – Porto – Portugal
February 12, 201712.02.2017

Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin – Berlin – Germany
January 26–29, 201726.–29.01.2017

43. Internationales Filmwochenende Würzburg – Würzburg – Germany
January 25 – February 5, 201725.01.–05.02.2017

International Film Festival Rotterdam – IFFR – Rotterdam – The Netherlands
January 23, 201723.01.2017

38. Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis Saarbrücken 2017 – “Night of a 1000 Hours” – Opening film – Saarbrücken – Germany
January 19, 201719.01.2017

Let’s talk about scripts! Robert Buchschwenter in a discussion with Virgil Widrich about the intensive work on the scree – Vienna – Austria
December 14, 201614.12.2016

Nomination “Best Screenplay” – Austrian Film Academy 2017 – Vienna – Austria
December 14, 201614.12.2016

Nomination “Best Costume Design” – Austrian Film Academy 2017 – Austria
Austria
December 7, 201607.12.2016

Lecture: Projection and Reality – a look behind the projected scenes of the film production “Night of a 1000 Hours”, 7.12.2016, 19:00. AIL – Angewandte Innovation Laboratory, Franz Josefs Kai 3, 1010 Vienna
November 26 – December 15, 201626.11.–15.12.2016

Vienna – Austria
November 18, 201618.11.2016

Innsbruck – Austria
November 18 – December 15, 201618.11.–15.12.2016

Vienna – Austria
November 17, 201617.11.2016

Graz – Austria
November 16, 201616.11.2016

Salzburg – Austria
November 15, 201615.11.2016

Vienna – Austria
October 21, 201621.10.2016

Lecture: Making of “Night of a 1000 Hours”, University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Germanic Studies, 601 S. Morgan St. 1502 University Hall, Chicago, IL 60607, 21.10.2016 at 14:00 p.m.
October 15, 201615.10.2016

★ Busan International Film Festival 2016
October 13–27, 201613.–27.10.2016

USA Premiere at 52nd Chicago International Film Festival 2016 – Chicago – USA
October 7–16, 201607.–16.10.2016

32nd Warsaw International Film Festival 2016 – Warsaw – Poland
October 6–15, 201606.–15.10.2016

Category “Flash – Busan – South Korea
June 13, 201613.06.2016

Lecture: Projection and Reality – a look behind the projected scenes of the film production “Night of a 1000 Hours”, 13.06.2016, 19:00. RC Wien-Oper, Hotel Bristol, Kärntner Ring 1, 1010 Vienna
June 13, 201613.06.2016

Lecture “Projection and Reality – Behind the scenes of the film production ‘The Night of a Thousand Hours’” at Rotary Club Wien Oper, Vienna, 13 June 2016.
June 1, 201601.06.2016

Lecture: Projection and Reality – a look behind the projected scenes of the film production “Night of a 1000 Hours”. 01.06.2016, 18:30. agpro Lounge, Hotel Kummer, Mariahilfer Straße 71a, 1060 Vienna
May 25, 201625.05.2016

Completion of “Night of a 1000 Hours” after a total of 9 years work on 25.5.2016.
April 4–29, 201604.–29.04.2016

Pre mix and main mix of “Night of a 1000 Hours” at Philophon Studios Luxembourg.
November 1, 201501.11.2015

Additional sound recordings in the parental home of Virgil Widrich, Mönchsberg 17, 5020 Salzburg.
October 5, 201505.10.2015

Beginning of the musical composition by Siegfried Friedrich.
September 11, 201511.09.2015

Reshoot of the shadows at Juraczka, Eyzinggasse 23, 1110 Vienna.
September 2, 201502.09.2015

Lecture: Projection and Reality – a look behind the projected scenes of the film production “Night of a 1000 Hours”, 2.9.2015, 13:00. Rotary Wien-Süd, Hotel Bristol, Kärntner Ring 1, 1010 Vienna
August 18, 201518.08.2015

Colour correction starts with Christian Berger and Kurt Hennrich on a first rough cut.
March 17, 201517.03.2015

Pia Dumont starts with the editing which will last over a year in Luxembourg and Vienna.
January 16 – May 28, 201516.01.–28.05.2015

January to March: preproduction, 17.3.2015 to 28.5.2015: main shooting of the feature film “Night of a 1000 Hours” in Vienna, Luxembourg and Italy.
January 15, 201515.01.2015

First day of filming “Night of a 1000 Hours” in Vienna. On the Naschmarkt facades of houses are picked up from a crane for 24 hours in changing light.
January 10 – March 6, 201510.01.–06.03.2015

Rehersals with the actors in Vienna.
November 26–27, 201426.–27.11.2014

A second technical test involving rear projections takes place from 26. to 27.11.2014 in Utrecht.
October 6, 201406.10.2014

Pre-production of the feature film “Night of a 1000 Hours”. A first technical test involving rear projections takes place on 6.10.2014 in Utrecht.
October 10, 201310.10.2013

Test shooting with Christian Berger for “Night of a 1000 Hours”, company Juraczka, Eyzinggasse 23, 1110 Vienna.
June 2–9, 201302.–09.06.2013

June 2 to 9, 2013, with Oleg Prodeus, participation in the workshop “Light Days/Light Nights” with DOP Christian Berger in Ilovic, Croatia.
January 10 – March 15, 201310.01.–15.03.2013

Pre-production of the film “Night of a 1000 Hours” in Vienna and Luxembourg.
November 26, 2011 – March 11, 201226.11.2011–11.03.2012

Working with Jean-Claude Carrière as dramaturgical consultant in Paris on the revision of the screenplay for “Night of a 1000 Hours”.
June 23, 201123.06.2011

First meeting with Jean-Claude Carrière on the drive from Vienna to Teplice. Beginning of his work as dramaturgical consultant for “Night of a 1000 Hours”.
January 30 – February 2, 201130.01.–02.02.2011

Selected from around 400 submitted projects, in January “Night of a 1000 Hours”, is presented at CineMart 2011 in Rotterdam.
August 5–9, 200905.–09.08.2009

Participation in the second part of the screenplay seminar “Sources 2” in Vienna with “Night of a 1000 Hours” (working title: “The Revolution”).
March 31 – April 8, 200931.03.–08.04.2009

Participation in the screenplay seminar “Sources 2” in Girona with “Night of a 1000 Hours” (working title: “The Revolution”).
October 1, 200801.10.2008

Filmfonds Wien, Österreichisches Filminstitut and Filmfund Luxembourg fund the project development of “Die Nacht der 1000 Stunden” (“Night of a 1000 Hours”).
January 15, 200715.01.2007

After many years of collecting ideas, work starts on the feature-film screenplay with the title “Die Nacht der 1000 Stunden” (“Night of a 1000 Hours”). Working title: “The Revolution”.