The NYC Independent Film Festival (October 15 – 19, 2014) is happy to have an Austrian film showing in the festival this year:
Die Gstettensaga: The Rise of Echsenfriedl
Directed by: Johannes Grenzfurthner
Written by: Johannes Grenzfurthner, Roland Gratzer
Cast: David Dempsey, Eva-Christina Binder, Evelyn Fürlinger, Harald Homolka-List, Jeff Ricketts, Joe Baumgartner, Lukas Tagwerker, Martin Auer, Roland Gratzer, Sophia Grabner, Stuart Freeman
The growing tension between the last two remaining superpowers - China and Google - escalates in the early 21st century, and results in the global inferno of the ‘Google Wars’. But the years go by, radioactive dust settles on old battlegrounds, and a New World rises from the ashes of the old.
Fratt Aigner, a seedy journalist, and Alalia Grundschober, a nerdy technician, live and work in Mega City Schwechat: the biggest semi-urban sprawl in the foothills of what remained of the Alps. Newspaper mogul Thurnher von Pjölk assigns them a special task: to venture into the boondocks of the Gstetten and find the legendary Echsenfriedl. It is the beginning of a journey full of dangers, creatures and precarious working conditions…Screening:
October 17, 2014 3:30 PM at the Grand Theatre.
