March ( März ) ( Marzo )

March (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: März
Alternate Title: Marzo
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Subtitles )
German ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
German ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Germany ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
84 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2008 and produced in:
Austria ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Klaus Händl

Written By:
Klaus Händl

Actors:
Benno Eberhard
Florian Eisner
Isolde Ferlesch
Julia Gschnitzer
Siggi Haider
Thomas Hiessl
Alfred Kleinheinz
Josef Kuderna
Ilse Kuen
David Schrottner
Theodor Schuler
Paul Schweinester
Julia Strauhal
Katharina Zeisler

Synopsis:

An unexpected death sends shock waves through a small Austrian community in this moody drama. A car is found one morning on the outskirts of town with the bodies of three teenagers inside. The three young men clearly committed suicide, running a hose from the exhaust pipe to the interior, but they left no note explaining why they chose to kill themselves, and their family and friends are uniformly puzzled by their actions. The young friends of the three victims are confused as they come to terms with the mortality of their peers, and their parents and older relatives are struck dumb by their pain, unable to express the agony and loss brought on by the suicides. The struggle of the parents to smother the agony the deaths have caused only serves to further confuse the town's youngsters as they search for ways to make sense of the tragedy. Maerz (aka March) was the first feature film from actor turned director Haendl Klaus, and was an official selection at the 2008 Locarno Film Festival.

Christian, Berni and Elmar, three friends at university, borrow a car and drive into the forest in the middle of the night. They smoke their last cigarette then connect the exhaust to the interior of the car, get in and start the engine. Serenely, smiling slightly, they take a deep breath, and die. A few months later, in a small village in the Tyrol, Christian and Berni's families are trying to live a normal life. Léo and Martina, brother and sister to the deceased, are lovers, in a somewhat up and down relationship. Their mourning parents also continue to live their lives as before. However, ever present grief afflicts them all, in waves of varying intensity. Sharing the same experience, which has become a taboo subject, these individuals, however close to one another, cannot communicate and share their feelings, each dealing in a different way with this terrible loss.

The suicide of three friends - young men who had no apparent motive to kill themselves and left no farewell notes - shakes a small village in Tyrol to the core. MARCH accompanies their relatives on the voyage back to everyday life, which is unchanged, at least on the surface.

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