Every seventh person

Austria/Luxembourg 2006 l 74 mins l 35mm l Colour l Dolby stereo l Chinese and Naxi (with German subtitles)

Script + Director: Elke Groen & Ina Ivanceanu
Camera: Elke Groen
Sound: Chang Pang, Carlo Thoss
Editing: Pia Dumont
Sound Design: Dietmar Schipek
Sound Editing: Regina Höllbacher
Production Organisation and Interviews: Ping -Xiu Rehm, ZHAO Liang, HE Zhi Wie
Scientific consultants: Heidi Dumreicher and the project team of the research project
SUCCESS, Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik, Felix Wemheuer, Wu Yunchuan
Production Management: Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu
Producers: Bady Minck, Virgil Widrich

“Every Seventh Person” was made in cooperation with the EU research project
“Success” and Oikodrom – The Vienna Institute for Urban Sustainability.

Production: Minotaurus Film (Luxembourg), Virgil Widrich Film and Multimedia Produktion (Vienna) in cooperation with Amour Fou Film Produktion.

Supported by: European Commission / research project SUCCESS, Austrian Film Institute, ORF (Film and television agreement), Film Fund Luxembourg

Distribution in Austria: POOOL Filmverleih

Worldpremiere: VIENNALE 2006

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Every seventh person in the world is a Chinese farmer. Between 2002 and 2005 the filmmakers Elke Groen and Ina Ivanceaneau carried out numerous interviews in three Chinese villages documenting everyday life – without any censorship whatsoever. At the same time the inhabitants of the villages shot their own short films about their surroundings, their hopes and their dreams – short films that have become part of “Every Seventh Person”. The result is an exceptional documentary film that provides insight into life in China away from the urban and industrial centres – a life between socialism and market economy in which the villages become the testing grounds for democracy and self-determination.

Theatrical Release
Austria: November 16, 2007
Topkino, Village W3, UCI Milleniumcity in Vienna; Moviemento in Linz

Festivals
European Film Festival in Bucharest (05.2008)
Maysles Brothers Competition - Belfast Int. Film Festival (10.-19.04.2008)
Internationales Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg (10.10. - 21.10.2007)
Festival "Der neue Heimatfilm" Freistadt (22.8. - 26.8.2007)
Diagonale Graz (19.03. - 25.03.2007)
VIENNALE (13.10. - 25.10.2006)