The Landlady
Johanna has one weakness: she is a dreamer. Her greatest wish: an apartment to live in and feel well in. And she’s actually found it already, if it weren’t for her landlady, Mrs. Schrankinger, real estate agent Mario – who is actually a shipowner – and lawyer Dr. Winter. They make Johanna’s life a living hell. Will she manage to turn the tide?
For many people, nice, affordable housing has become a pipe dream. But Johanna has one strength: she is a dreamer.
Cast
- Johanna Grundeis
- Marlene Hauser
- Liliane Schrankinger
- Margarethe Tiesel
- Mario Graf
- Lukas Watzl
- Valentina Stelzer
- Laura Hermann
- Dr. Dominik Winter
- Thomas Frank
- Adelheid Körner
- Michou Friesz
- Simon Reiter
- Max Thienen
- Hatice "Hilde" Yesayan
- Zeynep Buyraç
- Manuela Svazek
- Isabella Knöll
- Michi Aschauer
- Sebastian Pass
The Landlady
Sebastian Brauneis
- Fiction
- Production Country / Year
- Austria 2023
- Language
- de. OF mit en. UT
- Format
- DCP, Color, 101min
1.90:1, Discrete 5.1
- Original Title
- Die Vermieterin
Director & Crew
Sebastian Brauneis
Born in 1978 in Vienna/Austria. Studied Journalism and Medicine (without a degree) while working in various capacities in film production. Active as a director and screenwriter for film and television and as a producer and instructor.
Filmography
2006 AUTOBAHN, Kurzfilm
2008 SHADOWS – CIEN W FUTRACH, Kurzfilm
2017 ZAUBERER, Spielfilm
2020 3 FREUNDE 2 FEINDE, Spielfilm
2021 1 VERABREDUNG IM HERBST, Spielfilm
2023 DIE VERMIETERIN, Spielfilm HOF 2023
“[...] It was certainly of some influence on the creation of DIE VERMIETERIN that I was personally affected by the subject matter. And partly still am. My experiences of the last 13 months (in one sentence): In January 2022 I suddenly became homeless.
On the real estate market in Vienna [...] hardly anything is to be found that is worth its money. Therefore – also in a certain sense due to one’s own obstinacy to allow the precarious financial situation in the independent art business and the often unaffordable prices to force oneself into an apartment one can hardly pay for anyway and one to boot doesn’t really want to live in, because it’s a mere compromise – it became a sleeping bag and camp bed.
In the back of the office. Showering and shaving every morning in the fitness center. But beware: (unfortunately) no Spitzweg-poor-artist-in-the-attic-romanticism, but (also ‘unfortunately’) rather the absurd bloom of our neoliberal times, a misunderstood gentrification, a persistent concrete gold rush and a hugely inflated real estate bubble. [...]”
Sebastian Brauneis
- Writer
- Sebastian Brauneis
- Marlene Hauser
- Helmut Emersberger
- Director of Photography
- Sebastian Brauneis
- Editor
- Antonia Adelsberger
- Costume Designer
- Michelle Karussell
- Sound
- Nicholas Antes
- Thomas Garber
- Sound Designer
- Inanna Palikruscheva
- Music Composer
- Florian Seyser-Trenck
- Executive Producer
- Nils Pfeiffer
- Helene Stupnicki
- Producer
- Sebastian Brauneis
