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Angelo<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

DIRECTOR(S): <\/strong>Markus Schleinzer\u00a0\u00a0 COUNTRY: <\/strong>Austria\u00a0\u00a0 YEAR: <\/strong>2018\u00a0\u00a0 LANGUAGE(S): <\/strong>German, French\u00a0\u00a0 SUBTITLES: <\/strong>German, English\u00a0\u00a0 RUNNING TIME: <\/strong>110 min\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SECTION: <\/strong>International Competition 2019<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

SCREENINGS<\/strong>
Thursday, 03.10., 6.45 pm, kommkino
Saturday, 05.10., 1.45 pm, kinoeins<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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SYNOPSIS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Taken captive and brought to Europe as a child, Angelo received the education of an aristocrat and considered an exotic gem. Later, he entered Viennese society, which tolerated him discreetly but never accepted him as an equal member. This film is about colonial history and about the appropriation of body and mind. It is about interpretation and the chronology of a silencing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Angelo Soliman (1721\u20131796) is a mysterious figure of Viennese history. He was first sold into slavery and put on display as part of a traveling collection, before becoming a valet and a Freemason. After he died, he was embalmed and exhibited once again as part of a cabinet of curiosities. Markus Schleinzer arranges his tableaux very carefully and depicts the life and loneliness of a man and the narrow confines of 18th-century Viennese society. From time to time, he departs from the biopic framework to discuss questions of identity, agency and the legacy of colonialism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What’s it like, being abducted from your own country at the age of five or six? [\u2026] What does it mean, not meeting anyone who is like you for a very long time? At what point did Angelo let it slip his mind that he was different? How long is it possible to carry on like that? When do you start yearning to merge with the others around you? [\u2026] Essentially Angelo was an actor; if you can believe his first biographer, who wrote his life story 60 years after his death, then he himself contributed a great deal to the fairy tales that grew up around him.\u201d (Markus Schleinzer)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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