Austria/Germany/Luxembourg/Hungary 2007
96 min l colour l 35mm l 1:2.35 l Dolby Digital

Director & Script: Christian Frosch
Camera: Busso von Müller
Editing: Michael Palm
Sound: Jörg Theil
Set Design: Giovanni Scribano
Costumes: Alfred Mayerhofer
Music: Andreas Ockert
Cast: Brigitte Hobmeier, Martin Wuttke, Johanna Wokalek, Erni Mangold, Walfriede Schmitt, Xaver Hutter, Gabriel Barylli, Mirjam Ploteny, Markus Hering, Nina Fog

Production: Amour Fou Filmproduktion, Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu; KGP – Kranzelbinder Gabriele Production, Gabriele Kranzelbinder; Mediopolis, Alexander Ris; Neue Visionen Filmproduktion, Matthias Mücke und Torsten Frehse; Weltfilm, Kristina Konrad und Christian Frosch; Eurofilm Studio, Péter Miskolczi; Minotaurus Film, Bady Minck

Financial Support: ÖFI (Österreichisches Filminstitut), FFW (Filmfonds Wien), ORF (Film-/Fernsehabkommen), Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Filmfund Luxembourg, MDM (Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung), Motion Picture Public Foundation of Hungary, Ministerium für Bildung und Kultur der Republik Ungarn, MEDIA Programme of the European Community

"Silent Resident" is at the same time a thriller, a love story and a parable about 21st century society. The timeless and geographically detached setting of the story is a city which controls itself and whose impressive and haunting architecture mirrors the atmosphere of the narration.

Hannah lives and works in the self-sufficient "living machine" Neustadt (New Town) on the outskirts of place and time. When she leaves her violent husband and moves to a higher, socially superior floor of her building, her life quickly begins to derail. Why is she being observed by her new neighbours and spied upon by the internal security system? Why did the previous tenant commit suicide? And where is her ex-husband?