Blue Moon (2002 film)

• Josef Hader: Johnny Pichler
• Victoria Malektorovych: Shirley ( Dana ) / Jana
• Detlev Buck: Ignaz Springer

Blue Moon is the first feature film of the Austro- Swedish film director Andrea Maria Dusl. He is a mixture of action, comedy, romance and drama.

Action

When threatened him with a transfer a Balkan mafioso Johnny Pichler Austrian money man flees just decided with the car and the Call Girl Shirley as a voluntary " hostage " in Slovakia, where the young woman suddenly disappears. In Lviv and Kiev, Johnny finds the taxi driver Jana, who introduces himself as a twin sister Shirley. As also it disappears, following Johnny, accompanied by the East Germans Ignaz, their trail to Odessa on the Black Sea.

Reviews

The lexicon of the International film describes the film as " post-communist love story [ ... ] with convincing actors ," he had " to connect on several narrative levels of humor and depth" " sense of symbolic details " and he will take it.

Awards

• 2003 Diagonal Graz, Grand Prize of the diagonal for the Best Austrian film
• Łagów, Poland ( Special Jury Prize )
• Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic ( Variety Critic's Choice )

• Diagonal, Graz, Thomas Pluch Screenplay Award