SYNOPSIS
Whatever people no longer need, they dump in the basement. But they also store down there everything that they don't want others to see. In the Basement tells stories about people who pursue their obsessions in hiding. It's about sexuality and being ready to shoot, huge snakes in terrariums, fitness rooms and laundry rooms, and opera arias that fade out in vaulted underground rooms. Naked flesh is thrashed, people scream with pleasure and jokes are exchanged beneath a portrait of the Führer. After his Paradise Trilogy, Ulrich Seidl returned to the documentary form with this film. This night-time sea journey through the underground of the soul led in 2014 to a political scandal that raged for weeks and the resignation of several Austrian politicians.
CAST
Fritz Lang
Alfreda Klebinger
Inge and Manfred Ellinger
Josef Ochs
Alessa and Gerald Duchek
Cora Kitty
Peter Vokurek
Walter Holzer
a.o.
CREW
Director Ulrich Seidl
Idea and Concept Ulrich Seidl and Veronika Franz
DoP Martin Gschlacht
Sound Ekkehart Baumung
Editing Christoph Brunner
Producer Ulrich SeidlRis