Get Carter will be introduced by Brigitte Mayr and Michael Omasta from Synema Vienna, and is preceded by the short documentary, Wolfgang Suschitzky - Fotograd und Kamermann.
Legendary British star Michael Caine is Jack Carter, the London gangland enforcer who returns to his hometown of Newcastle to avenge his brother’s untimely death. Rarely has the criminal underworld been so realistically portrayed than in this 1971 masterpiece. Shot on location, Wolf Suschitzky's camera work bares unflinching witness to the bleakness of 1970s Newcastle and unremittingly depicts an atmosphere of decay and despair. Unsurprisingly, Get Carter's style influenced many gangster films to come but few come close to matching this classic.
Wolfgang Suschitzky - Fotograd und Kamermann (Joerg Burger, 2009, 22 min)
Joerg Burger, himself a photographer and cameraman, portrays Wolf Suschitzky’s eventful professional and private life. Stories, anecdotes, and memorabilia form the basis for a dialog with the versatile cameraman, whose liveliness and mischievous humour lend this short filmic portrait its special charm. A tribute to a great, all too modest man of cinema.
