Double Exposure
Salzburg, Austria, 1948: A mysterious woman appears out of nowhere. She hands over a suitcase full of photos taken between 1916 and the 1970s to a private detective. The assignment: to find out everything about the photographer who took these pictures, Carl Ellinger. But Carl Ellinger disappeared long before the photos were taken. Who, then, took these images?
Cast
- Betty Steinhart
- Verena Altenberger
- Doppelte Frau
- Claudia Kottal
- Privatdetektiv
- Philipp Karner
Double Exposure
Beate Thalberg
- Fiction
- Production Country / Year
- Austria 2022
- Language
- dt. OF ohne UT
- Format
- Digital file, Both, 59min
1.33:1, Stereo PCM
- Original Title
- Die Doppelte Frau
Director & Crew
Beate Thalberg
Born 1967 in Altmark. Studied directing and dramaturgy at the Hans Otto Theater Academy in Leipzig (now the Leipzig Conservatory of Music and Theater). Lives and works in Vienna as director of experimental films, documentaries, feature films and film essays as well as theater director and screenwriter.
Filmography
| 2012 | Elisabeth Heller: die Jahrhundertfrau | TV-Dokumentarfilm | |
| 2014 | Ich, hinter mir | experimenteller Spielfilm | |
| 2016 | Die Königin von Wien: Anna Sacher und ihr Hotel | TV-Dokumentarfilm | |
| 2019 | Raus aus dem Korsett | Fernsehfilm | |
| 2020 | Das große Welttheater: Salzburg und seine Festspiele | TV-Dokumentarfilm | |
| 2022 | Die doppelte Frau | Webserie/Spielfilm | 2023 |
| 2023 | Das Elixier | Spielfilm |
“While working on another film, I happened to discover a lot of fascinating photographs: images of Marlene Dietrich completely relaxed in a coffeehouse, of Arturo Toscanini highly concentrated during a rehearsal, singers laughing during a break. The vividness of a single frozen moment! Hundreds of these images have been published worldwide in books, newspapers, and online articles. All under the byline Carl Ellinger.
I wanted to find out more about him. The story of this film began with the first discovery of my research: Carl Ellinger disappeared long before all these pictures were taken. The genre was immediately clear, because like the mysterious client in the film, the true author—or authoress?—of these photos lured me from one false lead to the next. Riddles at every turn. Everything in the dark, nothing is as it seems—typical film noir! Soon, this person nudged me towards the real subject of my film: what does a society that suppresses a life's work of 100,000 relevant photos tell us about itself? Why does it erase an entire biography? Even more: why does it cover that with a lie no one questions anymore?”
Beate Thalberg
- Writer
- Beate Thalberg
- Director of Photography
- Anna Hawliczek
- Editor
- Anna Kirst
- Sound Designer
- Katharina Pichler
- Make-up
- Sofia Ivanovitch
- Producer
- Lena Weiss
- Eugen Klim
- Gerald Heidegger
