Blue Moon is an Austrian movie written and directed by Andrea Maria Dusl in 2002. The road movie romantic comedy is Dusl's first as a director. Film refers to the celluloid media on which movies are printed Film is a term that encompasses motion pictures as individual projects, as well as the field in general. ... Andrea Maria Dusl (* August 12, 1961 in Wien) is an Austrian/Swedish film director, author and illustrator. ... 2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... In general, road movies are a genre of movies in which the action takes places during a road journey. ... Romantic comedy films are a sub-genre of comedy films as well as of romance films. ...

Plot

In a month with two full moons, Austrian petty criminal Johnny Pichler is hired to carry a bag of cash to the Slovakian border and deliver it to a gangster. Johnny arrives late in a battered taxi. He is forced into the car behind the gangster's beautiful but unhappy escort. Shirley, who is no bimbo, squirts the gangster with an incapacitating spray, kicks him out of the car and races away with Johnny and the cash. The pair make a series of unsuccessful attempts to sell the obviously stolen car. In a Slovakian hotel Johnny offers to buy Shirley's share of the car with his share of the cash. She refuses but when he returns from the bar, she is gone. The origin of the term Blue Moon is steeped in folklore, and its meaning has changed and acquired new and interesting meanings and nuances over time. ...

Lonely Johnny teams up with Ignaz Springer, an East German con man who is having trouble adapting to post-Communist Europe, but claims to have business interests in Ukraine: shoe import-export. Springer introduces Johhny to a couple of Slovak whores and then disappears after selling the car without Johnny's knowledge. Johhny hitchhikes to Ukraine looking for Shirley with only the town Lviv stamped on a strip of photographs as a guide. In Lviv he meets a taxi driver who differs from Shirley only in her hair colour. Jana reveals that she is Shirley's twin sister and they soon become lovers. Jana tells him that Shirley's real name is Dana and that she had left Lviv some months ago after a bout of craziness. Johnny soon discovers that Jana is not being entirely honest with him. And the city is hardly welcoming: a gang force him to buy an ordinary brick from them with all the money that he has. He follows Jana to Odessa on the Black Sea, where he is also reunited with Springer. The movie ends as the blue moon rises and the final scene explains the enigmatic opening scene on the Odessa Steps (made famous by Battleship Potemkin). East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR), German Deutsche Demokratische Republik (DDR), was a communist state that existed from 1949 to 1990 in the former Soviet occupation zone of Germany. ... Motto: Semper fidelis Oblast Lviv Oblast Municipal government City council (Львівська міська рада) Mayor City chairman Lyubomyr Bunyak Area 171,01 km² Population  - city  - urban  - density 808,900 ? 4786/km² Founded City rights 13th century 1353 Latitude Longitude 49°51′ N 24°01′ E Area code +0322 Car plates  ? Twin towns Corning, Freiburg... ODESSA (German Organisation der ehemaligen SS-Angehörigen; The Organization of Former SS-Members) was an alleged Nazi-German fugitive network set up towards the end of World War II by a group of SS officers. ... Map of the Black Sea. ... For the battleship, see Russian battleship Potemkin article Броненосец Потемкин (1925) (variously Bronenosec Potemkin, Battleship Potemkin, Battleship Potyomkin and The Battleship Potemkin) is a 1925 silent film directed by Sergei Eisenstein. ...

Dusl saw the love that develops between Johhny and Jana as a metaphor for the relationship between the east and the west.

Production

The score was provided by Christian Fennesz. Recorded in German, English, Ukrainian, and Slovak, the movie is subtitled in English. Christian Fennesz (born December 25, Austrian experimental musician. ...

Cast

• Detlev W. Buck (Ignaz Springer)
• Josef Hader (Johnny Pichler)
• Viktoria Malektorovych (Shirley/Dana/Jana)
• Ivan Laca (Kovacic)
• Peter Aczel (Car dealer)

External links

• Blue Moon at the Internet Movie Database

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References

• Elley, Derek. 'Blue Moon', Variety, (August 5 2002).
• Chiari, Valeria. 'Interview with Andrea Maria Dusl', Cineuropa (October 14 2002). Retieved July 23 2005.