Tomcat

In his Teddy Award winning relationship drama, Austrian director Klaus Händl poses a question: what happens to a relationship when the love idyll is destroyed from within? "Writer/director Händl Klaus and his team bring masterful editing, beautiful cinematography, and great performances by the ensemble cast to create an enthralling atmosphere. The result is an engrossing yet confusing film that makes you think, and that holds the you in its grip long after leaving the cinema." (Berlinale/ Teddy Award - Jury) Andreas and Stefan live together with their beloved tomcat Moses in a beautiful house near Vienna. Both of them work for the same orchestra and lead a life full of passion, good food and friends until a surprising outburst of violence by Stefan suddenly changes everything.

Keywords

  • animals
  • Arthouse
  • Austrian Films
  • Diagonale – Festival des österreichischen Films
  • Location: Vienna
  • Love
  • missingFILMs
  • relationship
  • Storyline: Queer Love
  • the edge

Actors

  • Lukas Turtur
  • Philipp Hochmair
  • Toni

Director

  • Händl Klaus

Drama, Queer


1h 58min


16 FSK

DE


EN

Austria
2016
In his Teddy Award winning relationship drama, Austrian director Klaus Händl poses a question: what happens to a relationship when the love idyll is destroyed from within?

In his Teddy Award winning relationship drama, Austrian director Klaus Händl poses a question: what happens to a relationship when the love idyll is destroyed from within?


"Writer/director Händl Klaus and his team bring masterful editing, beautiful cinematography, and great performances by the ensemble cast to create an enthralling atmosphere. The result is an engrossing yet confusing film that makes you think, and that holds the you in its grip long after leaving the cinema." (Berlinale/ Teddy Award - Jury)


Andreas and Stefan live together with their beloved tomcat Moses in a beautiful house near Vienna. Both of them work for the same orchestra and lead a life full of passion, good food and friends until a surprising outburst of violence by Stefan suddenly changes everything.

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