Wild Mouse

Original Title: Wilde Maus

Completed in: 2017

Synopsis:

When 50-year-old George loses his job as music critic with a Vienna newspaper he conceals the fact from his younger wife Johanna, who wants a child with him. Instead, he embarks upon a campaign of revenge against his former boss… and begins to renovate a roller-coaster in the Wurstelprater amusement park along with an old school friend, Erich, who is also unemployed.

Director’s biography:

Josef Hader, born in 1962, began his career as a professional cabaret artist in 1985. He has received all major German-language cabaret awards. Since the early 1990s, Hader has repeatedly worked successfully in film as an actor and screenwriter, and more recently also as a director. With his directorial debut Wild Mouse for which he also wrote the screenplay and played the lead role. In 2024, Andrea gets a divorce was very successful in cinemas in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland.

Production company:

The Vienna-based film production company Wega Filmproduktion (WEGA-Film) was founded in 1980 by Dr. Veit Heiduschka. Between its breakthrough in 1986 with the crime comedy Müller’s Büro, directed by Niki List, and winning the Academy Award (“Oscar”) for Best Foreign Language Film for Amour, directed by Michael Haneke, in 2013, WEGA-Film has produced over 50 feature films, more than 20 TV films, and over 20 documentaries. WEGA-Film is today one of Austria’s leading film production companies.

IP Holder: Wega Filmproduktion