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Hidden Reserves by Valentin Hitz,  A/CH/D 2016 , 96 min, DCP.
German with English subtitles.
  • Director: Valentin Hitz
  • Screenplay: Valentin Hitz
  • Cinematography: Martin Gschlacht
  • Editing: Karina Ressler
  • Cast: Clemens Schick, Lena Lauzemis, Marion Mitterhammer, Marcus Signer, Jaschka Lämmert, Simon Schwarz, Stipe Erceg, Daniel Olbrychski
  • Producer: Oliver Neumann, Sabine Moser, Alexander Ris, Christine Haupt, Karin Koch, Frank Evers, Helge Neubronner, Andreas Eicher
  • Production: FreibeuterFilm, Neue Mediopolis, Dschoint Ventschr, Cine Plus
  • Distributor: Spot on Distribution
  • Contact: Lukas Diehl,
  • Festivals: Zürich Film Festival, Viennale, Filmfest Lünen, Solothurner Filmtage, Max Ophüls Festival
  • Homepage: stillereserven.at

Hidden Reserves

Vienna in the not too distant future. The corporate world has once and for all seized power. People have to pay back their debts – even beyond death. While being kept in an undeserving artificial coma, bodies are being exploited as data storage devices, spare organ depots or surrogate mothers. The only protection against such a fate is death insurance, which is only available as a luxury to a lucky few. Cold blooded top insurance agent Vincent Baumann, who is put on the case of resistance fighter Lisa Sokulowa, is more and more drawn under her spell and becomes a victim of the system he represents. He starts to suspect the insurance agency is playing a double game with him. The boundaries of who works for and who against the system begin to blur, who from the outside and who from the inside …

Starting from the unsettling premise that even death is no longer one’s very own property, Valentin Hitz’s dystopian thriller creates a fascinating nightmare world, populated by a brilliant cast.

Valentin Hitz
was born in 1969 in Stuttgart and grew up in Zurich. He studied direction at the Film Academy Vienna under Axel Corti and Peter Patzak. In addition he works as a script writer and lecturer.

Filmography 
2016 Stille Reserven 
2003 Kaltfront 
1998 Ratrace 
1996 Loved in Space 
1995 Seemannsbegräbnis