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Red Be All The Gold

"Red Be All The Gold" is an animated film opera by Günter Puller that tells the story of 30-year-old Ermin, who has decided to leave his hometown forever. He buys twelve tickets – all for the same time tonight, without even knowing where it should go. We follow Ermin through his last day in Vienna, where he is torn between farewell and a new beginning. Günter Puller, who wrote the libretto, composed the music, played the instruments and sang all the voices, unfolds a dancelike tour de force full of music and poetry with Red Be All The Gold, with which he counteracts the stuckness of the discourses and attitudes of our world.

  • Günter Puller
    Director
  • Günter Puller
    Writer
  • Günter Puller
    Composer
  • Günter Puller
    Animations
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Rot Sei All Das Gold
  • Project Type:
    Animation, Experimental, Feature, Music Video, Other
  • Genres:
    Arthouse, Filmopera, Musicfilm, Drama
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 13 minutes 41 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    July 1, 2024
  • Production Budget:
    60,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Austria
  • Country of Filming:
    Austria
  • Language:
    German
  • Shooting Format:
    4K Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    1,85:1
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Günter Puller

The story of Günter Puller as a filmmaker begins at the age of 13 in the cinema. Again and again he immersed himself for days and weeks in the films of Fellini, Hitchcock, Tarkowski, Wertmuller and, of course, all the French filmmakers. The films were not only screened in these arthouse cinemas, but their audience and surroundings opened up a space for artistic discourse and for taking a stance on the world.
Puller’s journey as a visual artist and composer now leads to his first full-length animated musical feature film, which he worked on for 15 years. Having grown musically into the Viennese tradition of contemporary art music and into the universal world of auteur film, Günter Puller reveals his very own images and sounds in his often enigmatic works.

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Director Statement

My work as a filmmaker is the synthesis of my passion for opera and my passion for film. The idea for my film "Red Be All The Gold" came from years of working on the composition of my own opera, which I have now completed as a film-opera animation. The story of the 30-year-old Ermin, who wants to leave Vienna without knowing where he is going, is the result of my artistic journey, in which I fused my composition, my 150-page screenplay and my animations into a musical film. In this work, I combine field recordings made with a film camera with animated scenes derived from early hand-drawn storyboard ideas.
The challenge was not simply to illustrate the musical composition or set the film to music. Rather, I developed the image, the composition and the screenplay in parallel, weaving them together in a long, detailed process. The film "Red Is All The Gold" creates an intermedia art space on the cinema screen, where society and art can be experienced as an inseparable unity.