Film “Corsage”, Oscar candidate, in turmoil after indictment of an actor for possession

The indictment of Florian Teichtmeister, 43, was announced on Friday. Since then, the public television Orf, which has co-financed the feature film, has decided to refrain from producing and broadcasting works with the actor.

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The Success Austrian film team on Sissi Corsage, in the running for the Oscars, was in turmoil on Sunday January 15, after the announcement of the indictment of childhood childcare equipment who plays the emperor François -Joseph.

Public television Orf, which co-financed the feature film, “immediately refrains from producing and broadcasting works with Florian Teichtmeister”, can be on website of the audiovisual group. According to the Orf, the cineplexx cinemas, which manages more than four hundred rooms in twelve countries, also withdrew from the poster the work presented last year in Cannes in a certain look.

The Professional Association of the Cinematographic Industry in Austria said to the Agency France-Presse (AFP) which she maintained on the other hand, “in consultation with the director and the producers”, the candidacy of Corsage for Oscars. It is necessary to “make the difference” between the film and the conduct of his actor, she pleads, as she selected it to represent the country for the next ceremony, in the category of the best foreign film.

Florian Teichtmeister’s lawyer announced on Friday at the media, the indictment, confirmed since the Vienna prosecutor’s office, of his client, aged 43, who plans to plead guilty and will be judged from February 8.

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He is accused of having possessed in large quantity of child pornographic material, at least between February 2008 and August 2021. He risks up to two years of deprivation of freedom.

In a statement sent to AFP on Sunday, the producers of the film Corsage, Johanna Scherz and Alexander Glehr, claim that the shooting took place before “the first rumors” appeared, “in the fall 2021 “. Confronted, the actor had told them “with conviction” that they were “false”.

“In the meantime, we have informed in detail our co-producers, distributors and business partners, financiers and sponsors as well as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences [which puts Oscars] on the facts currently accessible to the public. “

The film, which is successful in theaters and was presented in around seventy festivals, where it received several awards, was bought by more than ninety countries. He came out at the end of December in the United States. Florian Teichtmeister attended first in Austria and Germany.

The director and screenwriter of Corsage, Marie Kreutzer, said she was “saddened and angry that a feminist film (…) is so sali and damaged by the horrible actions of a single person”.

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The Austrian national theater Burgtheater, where the actor is a member, has also announced his dismissal with immediate effect.

/Media reports cited above.