Synopsis

The film picturizes the life time career of Austria’s greatest pop star ever, Johann Hölzel, better known as Falco. As one of the precursors for white hip-hop artists around the world he had been also famous as a fashion icon during the 1980s. Falco remains the only German speaking artist who has ever landed a Number One Hit with his hit single“Rock Me Amadeus”in the American billboard charts up until today. The biopic covers his life time story from his childhood to the discovery of his musical talent, his first stage appearances with Viennese bands such as“ Hallucination Company”and“ Spinning Wheel”to his gigantic break-through as an internationally successful artist around the globe. Falco’s complex character, his escape into drugs and fatal sexual affairs draw a picture of a sensitive man in the rough. In the end he was unable to cope with the enormous success of his music and parallel tragedies of his private life. Falco’s sudden and unexpected death on February 6th 1998 during a car accident in the Dominican Republic has made him a legend. 10 years after his death this film remembers him as Austria’s ever greatest pop star. ​

감독

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  • 토마스 로스
  • 1965년 오스트리아 그라츠 출생. 1985년부터 94년까지 오스트리아 방송국에서 음악 편집을 했으며 그 후 TV 프로그램, 다큐멘터리, 뮤직비디오 연출을 하게 된다. 그는 또한 다수의 TV영화를 제작하기도 했다. <비엔나 살인 미스터리>(1997)로 장편영화 데뷔를 했으며 이 작품은 1998년 막스 오퓔스상 후보에 오르기도 했다. 토마스 로스는 오스트리아 라디오 방송국 기자로 일할 당시인 1985년 팔코를 처음으로 만났으며 이후 그와 자주 만남을 갖게 된다. 영화<팔코>는 그에 대한 애정의 결과물이다.​