Release: 04.04.1997
Nine very different people are taking part in a two-week self-discovery course at a remote farm. Marital problems, career setbacks, age related depression and inability to form relationships — the ‘participants’ motives are as different as their personalities. Charismatic therapist Dr. Roman Romero and his helpers confront their clients with their “real” problems.
Cut off from the outside world, the participants increasingly fall under the sway of the therapy and their personalities start to change. After a week the unforeseen occurs: Dr Romero is found murdered. Panic breaks out and the psychotherapy turns into psychological warfare. The tension continues to rise as in rapid succession absurd accusations are traded, identities mistaken, accidents occur and false assumptions are made. Chance events and a growing frenzy of hysteria progressively rob the protagonists of their ability to take conscious decisions — until disaster can no longer be averted.
Die Totale Therapie (Total Therapy) is a tragicomic psycho-thriller in a world where things are falling apart and self-appointed saviours can trigger complete disaster.
With: Ursula Ofner, Blixa Bargeld, Sophie Rois and many more
Funding: Österreichisches Filminstitut, Land Niederösterreich
Nine very different people are taking part in a two-week self-discovery course at a remote farm. Marital problems, career setbacks, age related depression and inability to form relationships — the ‘participants’ motives are as different as their personalities. Charismatic therapist Dr. Roman Romero and his helpers confront their clients with their “real” problems.
Cut off from the outside world, the participants increasingly fall under the sway of the therapy and their personalities start to change. After a week the unforeseen occurs: Dr Romero is found murdered. Panic breaks out and the psychotherapy turns into psychological warfare. The tension continues to rise as in rapid succession absurd accusations are traded, identities mistaken, accidents occur and false assumptions are made. Chance events and a growing frenzy of hysteria progressively rob the protagonists of their ability to take conscious decisions — until disaster can no longer be averted.
Die Totale Therapie (Total Therapy) is a tragicomic psycho-thriller in a world where things are falling apart and self-appointed saviours can trigger complete disaster.
With: Ursula Ofner, Blixa Bargeld, Sophie Rois and many more
Funding: Österreichisches Filminstitut, Land Niederösterreich
Credits
| Production company | Prisma Filmproduktion GmbH |
| Executive Producers | Michael Seeber, Heinz Stussak |
| SCREENPLAY & DIRECTOR | Christian Frosch |
| DOP | Johannes Hammel |
| EDITOR | Vera Holcapek |
| ART DEPARTMENT | Michaela Pedratscher |
| COSTUME DESIGNER | Alfred Mayerhofer |
| MAKE UP | Martin Geisler, Bettina Grass |
| Distributor | Neue Visionen Filmverleih |
Prizes
Förderungspreis Carl Mayer Drehbuchwettbewerb 1999Festivals
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29.01.-09.02.1997
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07.-14.05.1997
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09.-19.10.1997