Der Glanz des Tages
Tizza Covi, Rainer Frimmel
Philipp Hochmair is a young and successful actor working for the most important theatres in Vienna and Hamburg. He spends his time learning new texts, rehearsing and performing, gradually losing touch with everyday reality. But when Philipp meets his uncle Walter, with whom he starts an ambiguous friendship, and has to face his neighbor Victor's destiny, he is reminded that life is more than a stage.
TizzaCovi was born in Bolzano, Italy, in 1971. She lived in Paris and Berlin before studying photography at the Vienna Higher College for Graphic Art. After finishing her studies she went to Rome where she worked as a photographer. Rainer Frimmel was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1971. He graduated as a photographer from the Vienna Higher College for Graphic Art. Since 1996 TizzaCovi and Rainer Frimmel are working together in photography, theatre, movie projects. In 2002 they founded their own film production company Vento Film to produce their films independently. They won several awards for their documentaries, That's all (2001) and Babooska (2005). La Pivellina, their first fiction film, was awarded in Angers in 2010.
"The documentary approach is what interests us the most in terms of filmmaking. What reality gives you just can't be re enacted. " Tizza Covi
"The documentary approach is what interests us the most in terms of filmmaking. What reality gives you just can't be re enacted. " Tizza Covi