Welcome to Siegheilkirchen – The Deix Film: Biographical animated film about the caricaturist Manfred Deix.
Film plot and background
Biographical animated film about the caricaturist Manfred Deix.
In the arch-conservative village of Siegheilkirchen lives the little boy (Markus Freistätter), only called Rotzbub by everyone. The year is 1967 and the old-established inhabitants are not only obese but also Nazis. While Rotzbub discovered his talent for drawing at an early age and wants to earn some extra money, his pictures meet with approval on one side, but are called lewd by the others.
The snotty boy mostly draws nude cartoons of the butcher’s assistant, which he gets rid of as flipbooks among his classmates. When Roma move into the village, not only is cultural life turned upside down, the snotty boy falls for the pretty Mariolina (Gerti Drassl) and has to continue to justify his drawing style to everyone.
“Welcome to Siegheilkirchen” – Cast, release, background
As a cartoonist Manfred Deix celebrated great successes and was able to turn his talent into a profession despite having abandoned his art studies. Welcome to Siegheilkirchen – The Deix Film” is an animated film that is based on the life of Deix himself and at the same time on the characters created by Deix. Satire meets coming-of-age and biopic here.
Deix already died in 2016 at the age of 76. Work on the animated film began three years earlier, which meant that Deix himself was able to provide important impulses for the project. Both Marcus H. Rosenmüller (“Beckenrand Sheriff”) and animation expert Santiago López Jover (“Der Mondmann”) are acting as directors.
In Austria, “Willkommen in Siegheilkirchen”, also distributed there as “Rotzbub – Der Deix Film”, has already become one of the most successful productions in the country since its cinema release in spring. The German theatrical release is scheduled for 7 July 2022.
