“Persona non grata”, interview with director Antonin Svoboda

Persona non grata by Austrian director Antonin Svoboda, at the 37°Bolzano Film festival, is inspired by the story of skier Nicola Spieß

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It is a woman driven film, “Persona Non Grata“, the new film by Austrian director Antonin Svoboda, screening at the 37°Bolzano Film Festival in the Special section.

Inspired by the story of skier Nicola Spieb who reported she was a victim of abuse in her field, the film sees Gerti Drassl in the role of Andrea, a former skier who, after the death of her husband, decides to report the abuses she had to endure as a young professional.

With his non judgmental look on his characters, Antonin Svoboda focuses on his protagonist and her interactions, especially with the two other women in her life, her mother and her daughter.

While the latter becomes an ally along her difficult journey facing what she went through years before, her mother claims that “It’s always been like that and they should stop acting like a victim”.

“Persona Non Grata“ is the story of a woman’ second chance to live as, to quote Antonin Svoboda “she doesn’t have to stick with her past anymore,  she’s changing this past tense in the present for the future, she’s feeling alive”.

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