The summits and sheer mountain ridges of Austria’s ‘Little Siberia’ funnel the freezing air from snow-covered peaks into a gigantic hollow – a high-level plateau at 1,000 metres from which it cannot escape: Lungau is Austria’s coldest region. Creeks and streams start higher here, and create bogs, moors and countless alpine lakes. Summer is short but lively, as eagles rear their precious young and ermines eat their fill before the sparse winter returns, while black alpine salamanders give birth to live miniature versions of themselves beneath the tree-line.
Written & Directed by
Waltraud Paschinger
Photography
Johannes Pötscher
Camera Assistant
Günter Schinnerl
Additional Photography
Rolando Menardi
Hubert Doppler
Engelbert Obex
Herbert Bliem
Michael Schlamberger
Kurt Mayer
Aerials
Martin Kumric
Siegfried Steiner
Thomas Morgenstern
Time Lapse
Stephan Dengg
Gerald Derigo
Drone Pilot
Benedikt Wind
Sound Design & Dubbing Mixer
Martin Rohrmoser
Foleys
Manuel Eisl
Visual Effects
Simon Wendler
Colourist
Lee Niederkofler
Music
Erwin Kiennast
Narrator
Andrew Solomon
Editor
Lukas Kogler
Scientific Consultants
Werner Kommik, Günter Rath, Karl Schichl
Andreas Thomasser, Florian Wollinger, Hannes Modl
Josef Fanninger, Regionalverband Lungau
Martin Sagmeister, Ferienregion Salzburger Lungau
Madeleine Pritz, Ferienregion Salzburger Lungau
Markus Schaflechner, Biosphärenpark Lungau
Günther Tragatschnig, Österreichische Bundesforste
Animal Wranglers
Herbert u. Katharina Pecher
Josef u. Monika Hiebeler, Willy Berger
Thanks to
Hubert Gollackner, Josef Huber, Peter Pürgy, Stefan Palffy,
Albert Hölbling, Bernhard Schatz, Friedrich Meran, Arno Neuwirther,
Hans Steffner, Franz Fingerlos, Ernst Schiefer jun., Heimo Waibl,
Josef Perner, Edgar Hanss, Franz Sampl, Elfriede Schlick,
Johann Rauter, Siegfried Leitner, Maria u. Werner Santner,
Reinhard Wieland, Eva Eigner, Johann Kößler, Elisabeth Macheiner,
Wolfgang Kocher, Dagmar Gspandl, Horst Steinhöfler
Location Manager
Günter Schinnerl
Production Manager
Alexandra Herzog
Producer
Lukas Kogler
Unit Managers ORF
Gabriele Wistawel
Roman Landauer
Commissioning Editor BR
Bernd Strobel
Executive Producer ORF
Franz Fuchs
Series Editor ORF
Andrew Solomon
Head of Factual ORF
Gerhard Klein
A PRODUCTION FROM DREID.AT IN COPRODUCTION WITH ORF UNIVERSUM AND BR
IN ASSOCIATION WITH ORF-ENTERPRISE
FUNDED BY Film Fund Salzburg
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