(Half) The Time Of My Life

DATES

COMPLETION

April 2008

WORLD PREMIERE

April 03, 2008 | Diagonale | Graz

Theatrical Release

Austria: January 01, 2009
Germany: October 08, 2009

TV transmissions

YLE: August 2009
ARTE: October 29, 2010
ORF III: March 14, 2013

SOCIAL MEDIA

AWARDS

„Best Austrian Documentary Film 07/08“
Grand Diagonale Prize 2008

„Best Documentary Film“
New Berlin Film Award 2009

„Best Documentary Film“
Bolzano Film Festival 2009

„Best Documentary Film“/
honorary mention
Trieste Film Festival 2009

Katha's Fashion

→ km/a mode
. by Katha Harrer

FEATURED MUSIC

→ Les Hommes Sauvages
. by Kristof Hahn (Swans)

ABOUT THE FILM

Today, if you haven’t made it by 30 it’s all over.

Filmmaker Marko Doringer has decided to go on a very personal mission: he is 30 years old, hasn’t achieved anything in life, and has just lost his first molar. Bodily decay has begun, youth is disappearing fast. What else is there in life before it’s all over?

Marko will visit old friends, his parents, and their friends to find out whether they are better off than him. Why does being 30 have to be this hard? Marko questions the meaning of life with perceptive irony. He relentlessly confronts his protagonists with both the large and small questions of humanity: why is it so difficult accepting the success of others? Why it is so difficult to accept one’s own?

(Half) The Time Of My Life is an ironic self-portrait of a whole generation – the happily depressed; a real life version of a coming-of-age novel of our present, and Marko’s future.

FILM STILLS

FURTHER INFORMATION

FACTS

GERMAN TITLE:
Mein Halbes Leben

COMPLETION:
January 2008

LENGTH:
93 minutes

ORIGINAL LANGUAGES:
German, English

VERSIONS:
OmU Deutsch, OwS English
CREDITS

with
Katha H. & Ingo F.
Martin O. & Tanja Z.
Thomas & Gitti B.
Etty & Heinz D.
Marko D.

writer, director & camera: Marko Doringer
script consultants: Andres Veiel
. Klaus Charbonnier
sound: Johannes Schmelzer-Ziringer
editing: Marko Doringer, Martin Hoffmann

music: Les Hommes Sauvages
sound design, sound mix: Markus Böhm

color correction: Till Beckmann
motion graphics: Daniel Flax
production consultant: Ronny Zuckermann
line producer: Markus Glaser

producers:
Marko Doringer | Filmfabrik
Markus Glaser, Michael Kitzberger, Nikolaus Geyrhalter, Wolfgang Widerhofer | Nikolaus Geyrhalter Filmproduktion
FESTIVALS

Hof International Film Festival ´08
German

Diagonale ´08
Austria

Duisburg ´08
Germany

Jihlava ´08
Czech Republic

La Rochelle ´09
France

Trieste International Film Festival ´09
Italy

New Berlin Film Award ´09
Germany

Bolzano Film Festival ´09
Italy
REVIEWS

“This film is a godsend!”
Der Standard (Austria)

“One of the funniest, wisest, grooviest and most moving films of the past few years.”
Skip (Austria)

“In its best moments, it’s like a Woody Allen film.”
taz

“Hilarious!”
Der Tagesspiegel

“Ironic, engaging and funny.”
Show Royale – Radio Eins Berlin

“Rarely has an audience been laughing so hard despite the gravity of the subject.”
kino-zeit.de

“straight-up and genuine”
kultur online/ Germany

“…and deftly funny”
ebuco/ Austria
POSTER
TESTIMONIALS

“Your films perfectly portray how our generation experiences life.”
DANIELA