Sleeping with a Tiger

Gifted child, abandoned daughter, determined woman, lonely artist, explorer of inner worlds, celebrated painter. The film SLEEPING WITH A TIGER by Anja Salomonowitz is a poetic portrait of the Austrian painter Maria Lassnig (Birgit Minichmayr). A film about her search for her very personal, artistic expression, her struggle in the male art world, her physical struggle for her painting, in which she brings her inner pain to the canvas. And then also a film about her great artistic success.

SLEEPING WITH A TIGER is a Lassnig biopic with its own form. The painter is portrayed at any
age - whether 6, 19, 64 or 94 years old - by the actress Birgit Minichmayr.
embodied. She moves through time as an eternally identical figure.

CREDITS | EXCERPT

Production: coop99
Casting: Lisa Oláh
Camera: Jo Molitoris AAC
Lighting: Dominik Danner
Original sound: Hjalti Bager-Jonathansson and Johannes Baumann
Production design: Martin Reiter with Andreas ErtL
Costume: Tanja Hausner
Make-up: Sam Dopona and Verena Eichtinger
Editing: Joana Scrinzi AEA
Sound design: Veronika Hlawatsch
Mixing: Tobias Fleig
Music: Bernhard Fleischmann
Color: Lisa Tillinger and Andi Winter
Production management: Philipp Luka Grandits
Production management: Bruno Wagner
Research: Anna Bauer
Dramaturgy: Roland Zag
Producer: Antonin Svoboda
Screenplay and director: Anja Salomonowitz
Production: coop99 Filmproduktion
Distribution: Stadtkino Filmverleih