Eismayer

• David Wagner
• 87 min
• Austria
• 2022
• Fiction

Rock-hard commander comes out of the uniform closet in stringent but surprising genre-challenging boot-camp drama based on real events.

Eismeyer is known as the most detested commander in the Austrian army. With his exaggerated macho style, he thinks that discipline and being rough are the only ways of fostering recruits. And whoever does not fall in line with his methods is punished without mercy. But once the young Falak enters the picture, his world is thrown upside down. Falak stands for who he is and refuses to take shit—neither for being gay nor an immigrant. On top of it, he is popular, smart, spontaneous, and – hot. Eismayer is a debut that is sure of form and well-played, about two men spawned from two completely different types of masculinity. It succeeds at avoiding all expected clichés and as an added bonus it offers a declaration of love of the absolute best class. The film won the Critics’ Week Award at Venice.

- Camilla Larsson

• Debut
• Drama
• HBTQ
• Kärlek
• Verklighetsbaserat
• Krig