Dog Days

Dog Days is a 2001 Austrian feature film directed by Ulrich Seidl. The film stars a mix of professional and amateur actors and follows six interwoven stories set in suburban Vienna over the course of some unseasonably hot summer days. The film premiered at the 2001 Venice Film Festival where it went on to win the Grand Special Jury Prize and also won awards at the International Film Festival Bratislava and the Gijon International Film Festival. Plot The film is set in Vienna during a week of unseasonably hot summer weather and has six interconnected narrative streams. An alarm systems engineer attempts to capture someone damaging cars, an old man interacts with various people including his housekeeper, a young man treats his girlfriend badly, a teacher has a date with her lover which goes wrong, a divorced couple are dealing with the death of their child and a mentally disturbed hitchhiker asks her drivers rude questions. Cast The hitchhiker – Maria Hofstätter The old man – Erich Finsches The old man's housekeeper – Gerti Lehner The young woman – Franziska Weisz The young woman's boyfriend – Rene Wanko The ex-husband – Victor Rathbone The ex-husband's wife – Claudia Martini The teacher – Christine Jirku The lover – Viktor Hennemann The alarm systems engineer – Alfred Mrva Production