Markus Schleinzer on Sandra Hüller, Star of His Austrian Oscar Entry ‘Rose’ and a Berlin Best Lead Performance Winner: ‘She’s the Queen’

Markus Schleinzer on Sandra Hüller, Star of His Austrian Oscar Entry ‘Rose’ and a Berlin Best Lead Performance Winner: ‘She’s the Queen’ hakkında magazin dünyasında yaşanan en son ayrıntılar ve sıcak gelişmeler netleşti. Oct 14, 2026 1:19pm PT Markus Schleinzer on Sandra Hüller, Star of His Austrian Oscar Entry ‘Rose’ and a Berlin Best Lead Performance Winner: ‘She’s the Queen’ ’Rose’ director Markus Schleinzer discusses Sandra Hüller, gender roles and why society forces people to hide who they are, talking at the Vancouver Intl. Film Festival (VIFF) By Katherine Brodsky Plus Icon Katherine Brodsky Latest Vancouver Film Festival Audience Award Winners: ’I Play Rocky,’ ‘Ceremony’ Among Big Wins 1 day ago Peruvian Filmmaker Sami Hawka Explores Polyamory, Indigenous Rights and Resistance in ‘While Everything Falls’: ’Power Can Oppress People in Different Ways’ 2 days ago Beyond ‘Hollywood North’: How Vancouver’s Indie Film Scene Is Building Its Own Ecosystem 5 days ago See All Add us as a Google Preferred Source Comments As a filmmaker, Markus Schleinzer owes much to his 17-year career as a casting director.

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“Directing a movie and being a casting director are quite similar jobs,” he tells Variety . Both require making the right choices under pressure and persuading others to believe in them.

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For a casting director, that means convincing a filmmaker or producer. For a director, it means earning the audience’s trust.

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For years, he worked closely for Michael Haneke as his casting director. But Haneke also gave Schleinzer opportunities to direct background performers and learn how a film set operates.

“He put a lot of trust in me,” he says. Popular on Variety Haneke was also the one who urged him to step out from behind the scenes and become a filmmaker himself, giving him three months to write a script.

“I thought, yes, this was a compliment,” Schleinzer recalls. “But three months later he called me and said, ‘Where’s the script?’ And I didn’t have a single line.” Eventually, he sat down and wrote one.

Haneke liked it and refused to let it languish in a drawer, passing it along to French producer Margaret Ménégoz, who called Schleinzer to say she wanted to make it. “So I was trapped,” he says.

“I couldn’t get away from it anymore. This is how I, finally, got kicked in my ass.” His third feature, “ Rose ,” which screened at the Vancouver International Film Festival ( VIFF ), is a black-and-white historical drama starring Sandra Hüller as a woman who disguises herself as a male soldier in 17th-century Germany.

By exposing the contradictions of a society that values people for what they can contribute while restricting who is allowed to contribute, the film turns one woman’s struggle to live freely into a broader indictment of the rules governing gender and belonging. Schleinzer wrote the role specifically for Hüller, whose performance continues to move him even after countless viewings.

“She’s the queen,” he says. “I’ve seen it in post-production, whatever, I’ve seen it a hundred times.

Still, there were moments, there were sentences, there were scenes, where she completely moves me, where I start to cry, where I get angry again, like an audience member who sees this for the very first time. And that’s the craft she’s

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