Danube Hospital

Name: Danube Hospital
Director: Nikolaus Geyrhalter
Released: 2012

Nikolaus Geyrhalter 2012

DANUBE HOSPITAL, a portrait of one of Europe’s largest hospitals, shows the daily routines and work processes at a powerful and highly complex institution. By depicting a modern healthcare facility, DANUBE HOSPITAL holds a mirror to our society to show how it deals with health and illness, life and death.

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Running Time:

75 min.

Spoken Languages:

German

Subtitles:

English

Directors:

Nikolaus Geyrhalter

Producers:

Markus Glaser, Michael Kitzberger, Wolfgang Widerhofer, Nikolaus Geyrhalter

Cinematographers:

Nikolaus Geyrhalter

Editors:

Andrea Wagner

Production Companies:

Geyrhalter Filmproduktion

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Danube Hospital (Donauspital): FIDMarseille Review - The Hollywood Reporter

A quiet ode to the reassuringly dull super-efficiency of the Austrian healthcare system, Nikolaus Geyrhalter's Danube Hospital (Donauspital SMZ- OST) examines Vienna's second-biggest medical facility with a suitably 'clinical' detachment.

Illuminating, occasionally wince-inducing documentary assembled with quietly competent professionalism.

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Diagonale, Festival of Austrian Film
FIDMarseille
Hof International FF
Montreal World FF

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