Ulrich Maria Seidl is a director, screenwriter and producer. He does not consider himself a documentary filmmaker, but several of his films often blend fiction and nonfiction. He started his career with award-winning documentaries such as “Good News” (1990), “Animal Love (1995), and “Models” (1998). Seidl’s first feature film “Dog Days” won the Special Jury Price at Venice Film Festival in 2001. “Import Export” (2007), the first film produce by his own company, was invited to the Cannes competition. So far Seidl has directed some 20 feature films, fictive or non fictive.
Ulrich Seidl Biography / Wiki
| Name | Ulrich Seidl |
| Also Know | |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Directing |
| Place of Birth | Vienna, Austria |
| Date of Birth | 1952-11-24 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 69 |
| Deathday |
Ulrich Seidl Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Ulrich Seidl – A Director at Work | Himself | 2014-10-05 | This cinematic portrait shows the Austrian filmmaker Ulrich Seidl at work. The much-discussed ‘Seidl method’ is conveyed here vividly and directly… |
| Cinema Austria, the first 112 Years | Himself | 2020-05-20 | This historical and analytical documentary draws attention to the background of the roots of “New Austrian Cinema” and presents Austria as a film coun… |
Ulrich Seidl Directing Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Import/Export | Director | 2007-10-18 | A nurse from the Ukraine searches for a better life in the West, while an unemployed security guard from Austria heads East for the same reason. Both … |
| Dog Days | Director | 2001-09-03 | In a suburb of Vienna during some hot summer days: A teacher who is in bondage to a sleazy pimp, a very importunate hitchhiker, a private detective on… |
| Animal Love | Director | 1996-08-29 | In conurbations where hundreds of thousands live alongside one another, in the era of a highly technological society, in which communication has never… |
| Models | Director | 1999-02-26 | A revealing and devastating portrait of a trio of aspiring real-life Viennese models. Vivian will stop at nothing to be a magazine cover girl. Lisa f… |
| Jesus, You Know | Director | 2003-07-05 | Six Catholics share their thoughts and problems with Jesus in different churches. The camera accompanies them…. |
| Good News: Newspaper Salesmen, Dead Dogs and Other People from Vienna | Director | 1990-01-01 | This documentary, Ulrich Seidl’s full-length film debut, examines the lives of the street newspaper sellers in Vienna, a mixture of men from Turkey, I… |
| One Fourty | Director | 1980-01-01 | The story of a 50-year-old dwarf who stopped growing at 1 meter 40 and plays the piano…. |
| Loss Is to Be Expected | Director | 1992-02-01 | Looks at two communities on either side of the Czech-Austrian border. There’s an elderly man in Austria looking for a new wife, and he meets a lone si… |
| The Bosom Friend | Director | 1997-06-03 | Main character of this movie is Rene Rupnik, a former math teacher. He is forty years old and lives together with his mother in a desolate block of fl… |
| The Last Real Men | Director | 1995-10-03 | Disappointed by failed relationships and the demands set by local women, more and more Austrians search for happiness in a marriage with women from Th… |
| Paradise: Love | Director | 2012-04-27 | On the beaches of Kenya they’re known as “Sugar Mamas” — European women who seek out African boys selling love to earn a living. Teresa, a 50-year-ol… |
| State of the Nation | Director | 2002-08-03 | Four film-makers embark on a cinematic survey of Austria, documenting the political and social state of the nation and its people. An eye-opening expe… |
| Paradise: Hope | Director | 2013-02-08 | Hope, the third film in the PARADISE TRILOGY, tells the story of the 13-year-old Melanie. While her mother (Teresa) travels to Kenya, Melanie spends h… |
| Paradise: Faith | Director | 2012-08-29 | Second film in Ulrich Seidl’s Paradise trilogy. A devout Catholic woman practises her religion at home and in the local community, but is unprepared f… |
| Fun Without Limits | Director | 1998-01-01 | An afternoon in the biggest fair of Germany…. |
| The Prom | Director | 1982-01-01 | Ulrich Seidl applies his characteristically gentle eye to the wonderful people of his hometown of Horn, documented making fools of themselves during a… |
| Pictures at an Exhibition | Director | 1996-01-01 | What does modern art mean for ordinary visitors to an exhibition?… |
| In the Basement | Director | 2014-09-26 | Filmmaker Ulrich Seidl explores of the dark underside of the human psyche by entering Austrian basements fitted out as private domains for secrets and… |
| Venice 70: Future Reloaded | Director | 2013-07-31 | Made for the Venice Film Festival’s 70th anniversary, seventy filmmakers made a short film between 60 and 90 seconds long on their interpretation of t… |
| Safari | Director | 2016-09-16 | Africa. In the wild expanses, where bush-bucks, impalas, zebras, gnus and other creatures graze by the thousands, they are on holiday. German and Aust… |
| Rimini | Director | 2022-04-08 | Richie Bravo, once upon a time a successful pop star, chases after his faded fame in wintry Rimini. Trapped between permanent intoxication and concert… |
| Look 84 | Director | 1984-01-01 | Unfinished early documentary by Ulrich Seidl about a foto shooting with Sonja Kirchberger and Peter Baumann at the Tunisian seaside…. |
| The Mozart Minute | Director | 2006-01-25 | Twenty-eight well-known filmmakers living and working in Austria were invited by WIENER MOZARTJAHR 2006, to produce associative miniatures on Mozart. … |
| Brothers, Let Us Be Merry | Director | 2006-08-09 | Experimental short film from 2006…. |
| War in Vienna | Director | 1989-01-01 | A film about news, life and death. Before the media became so prevalent, we were concerned about our immediate neighborhood. At the end of the day, n… |
| Beware Haderer | Director | 1992-01-01 | A staged TV portrait of the Austrian cartoonist Gerhard Haderer; and first collaboration with Maria Hofstätter…. |
| Sparta | Director | 2022-09-16 | Ewald moved to Rumania years ago. Now in his 40s, he seeks a fresh start. Leaving his girlfriend, he moves to the hinterland. With young boys from the… |
Ulrich Seidl Production Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Paradise: Love | Producer | 2012-04-27 | On the beaches of Kenya they’re known as “Sugar Mamas” — European women who seek out African boys selling love to earn a living. Teresa, a 50-year-ol… |
| The Prom | Producer | 1982-01-01 | Ulrich Seidl applies his characteristically gentle eye to the wonderful people of his hometown of Horn, documented making fools of themselves during a… |
| In the Basement | Producer | 2014-09-26 | Filmmaker Ulrich Seidl explores of the dark underside of the human psyche by entering Austrian basements fitted out as private domains for secrets and… |
| Goodnight Mommy | Producer | 2014-10-07 | In the heat of the summer lays a lonesome house in the countryside where nine year old twin brothers await their mother’s return. When she comes ho… |
| Kern | Producer | 2012-01-01 | Two directors shoot a documentary about the controversial director and pugnacious actor Peter Kern. But he cannot be easily rammed into the classical … |
| Safari | Producer | 2016-09-16 | Africa. In the wild expanses, where bush-bucks, impalas, zebras, gnus and other creatures graze by the thousands, they are on holiday. German and Aust… |
| Rimini | Producer | 2022-04-08 | Richie Bravo, once upon a time a successful pop star, chases after his faded fame in wintry Rimini. Trapped between permanent intoxication and concert… |
| The Children of the Dead | Producer | 2019-04-05 | Tourism is booming at the Pension Alpenrose. After a dying in an accident, Karin returns as one of the undead. In a cinema owned by a Nazi widow where… |
| Lillian | Producer | 2019-12-11 | Lillian, stranded as an emigrant in New York, wants to walk back to her native Russia. Determined, she sets out on the long journey. A road movie acro… |
| Running on Empty | Co-Producer | 2020-02-25 | Lisa Weber’s portrait of Claudia, who had a son when she was 15 and now lives together with him, her mother and her brother in Vienna, is an affecti… |
| Goodnight Mommy | Unit Manager | 2014-10-07 | In the heat of the summer lays a lonesome house in the countryside where nine year old twin brothers await their mother’s return. When she comes ho… |
| Import/Export | Producer | 2007-10-18 | A nurse from the Ukraine searches for a better life in the West, while an unemployed security guard from Austria heads East for the same reason. Both … |
| Paradise: Faith | Producer | 2012-08-29 | Second film in Ulrich Seidl’s Paradise trilogy. A devout Catholic woman practises her religion at home and in the local community, but is unprepared f… |
| Egon Schiele: Death and the Maiden | Co-Producer | 2016-10-07 | Vienna, Austria, 1910. The young painter Egon Schiele is a rising artist, provocative and free, whose work, characterized by eroticism, shocks as much… |
| Luzifer | Producer | 2022-04-28 | A man with the mental faculties of a child must save his mother, thereby becoming god and devil…. |
| Sonne | Producer | 2022-09-09 | Young women, Austrian style. Yesmin is Kurdish and wears a headscarf. She shoots a cheeky burqa video with Bella and Nati which makes the trio famous … |
| Sparta | Producer | 2022-09-16 | Ewald moved to Rumania years ago. Now in his 40s, he seeks a fresh start. Leaving his girlfriend, he moves to the hinterland. With young boys from the… |
Writing
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Import/Export | Screenplay | 2007-10-18 | A nurse from the Ukraine searches for a better life in the West, while an unemployed security guard from Austria heads East for the same reason. Both … |
| Dog Days | Screenplay | 2001-09-03 | In a suburb of Vienna during some hot summer days: A teacher who is in bondage to a sleazy pimp, a very importunate hitchhiker, a private detective on… |
| Paradise: Love | Screenplay | 2012-04-27 | On the beaches of Kenya they’re known as “Sugar Mamas” — European women who seek out African boys selling love to earn a living. Teresa, a 50-year-ol… |
| Paradise: Hope | Screenplay | 2013-02-08 | Hope, the third film in the PARADISE TRILOGY, tells the story of the 13-year-old Melanie. While her mother (Teresa) travels to Kenya, Melanie spends h… |
| Paradise: Faith | Screenplay | 2012-08-29 | Second film in Ulrich Seidl’s Paradise trilogy. A devout Catholic woman practises her religion at home and in the local community, but is unprepared f… |
| The Prom | Writer | 1982-01-01 | Ulrich Seidl applies his characteristically gentle eye to the wonderful people of his hometown of Horn, documented making fools of themselves during a… |
| In the Basement | Idea | 2014-09-26 | Filmmaker Ulrich Seidl explores of the dark underside of the human psyche by entering Austrian basements fitted out as private domains for secrets and… |
| Safari | Writer | 2016-09-16 | Africa. In the wild expanses, where bush-bucks, impalas, zebras, gnus and other creatures graze by the thousands, they are on holiday. German and Aust… |
| Models | Writer | 1999-02-26 | A revealing and devastating portrait of a trio of aspiring real-life Viennese models. Vivian will stop at nothing to be a magazine cover girl. Lisa f… |
| One Fourty | Writer | 1980-01-01 | The story of a 50-year-old dwarf who stopped growing at 1 meter 40 and plays the piano…. |
| Good News: Newspaper Salesmen, Dead Dogs and Other People from Vienna | Writer | 1990-01-01 | This documentary, Ulrich Seidl’s full-length film debut, examines the lives of the street newspaper sellers in Vienna, a mixture of men from Turkey, I… |
| Loss Is to Be Expected | Writer | 1992-02-01 | Looks at two communities on either side of the Czech-Austrian border. There’s an elderly man in Austria looking for a new wife, and he meets a lone si… |
| Rimini | Screenplay | 2022-04-08 | Richie Bravo, once upon a time a successful pop star, chases after his faded fame in wintry Rimini. Trapped between permanent intoxication and concert… |
| The Bosom Friend | Writer | 1997-06-03 | Main character of this movie is Rene Rupnik, a former math teacher. He is forty years old and lives together with his mother in a desolate block of fl… |
| Animal Love | Writer | 1996-08-29 | In conurbations where hundreds of thousands live alongside one another, in the era of a highly technological society, in which communication has never… |
| Fun Without Limits | Screenplay | 1998-01-01 | An afternoon in the biggest fair of Germany…. |
| Pictures at an Exhibition | Screenplay | 1996-01-01 | What does modern art mean for ordinary visitors to an exhibition?… |
| Old People | Author | 1988-01-01 | ‘Old People’ deals with a subject which was to preoccupy filmmaker Ulrich Seidl over many years and across a number of films: it portrays old people b… |
| War in Vienna | Writer | 1989-01-01 | A film about news, life and death. Before the media became so prevalent, we were concerned about our immediate neighborhood. At the end of the day, n… |
| Beware Haderer | Writer | 1992-01-01 | A staged TV portrait of the Austrian cartoonist Gerhard Haderer; and first collaboration with Maria Hofstätter…. |
| The Last Real Men | Writer | 1995-10-03 | Disappointed by failed relationships and the demands set by local women, more and more Austrians search for happiness in a marriage with women from Th… |
| In the Basement | Writer | 2014-09-26 | Filmmaker Ulrich Seidl explores of the dark underside of the human psyche by entering Austrian basements fitted out as private domains for secrets and… |
| Sparta | Writer | 2022-09-16 | Ewald moved to Rumania years ago. Now in his 40s, he seeks a fresh start. Leaving his girlfriend, he moves to the hinterland. With young boys from the… |
Other Info
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Look 84 | Editor | 1984-01-01 | Unfinished early documentary by Ulrich Seidl about a foto shooting with Sonja Kirchberger and Peter Baumann at the Tunisian seaside…. |
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