My Shortest Death

Infobox Film | name =My Shortest Death


caption = Promotional poster of "My Shortest Death"
director = Johannes Pirkebner
producer = Johannes Pirkebner
writer = Johannes Pirkebner
starring = Vanessa Gallardo
cinematography = Gerald Dellacher
music = various artists
editing = Johannes Pirkebner
distributor = none
released = February 8, 2006 (Lienz, Austria) (premiere)
runtime = 4:30 min
language = German
budget = €200 (estimate)

"My Shortest Death" is a 2006 dramedy film starring Vanessa Gallardo.

Plot

A desperate high school teacher, Anna (Gallardo) commits suicide, and as her final moments pass by, she tells the audience why she had killed herself. First of all she regrets choosing the teacher's job as her lifetime mission, secondly she wasn't able to stand the workplace bullying by her colleagues. Then she tells that she lost the principal election. Eventually Anna's corpse revives and bows in front of an audience as she gives to know that everything she told was real but the suicide at the beginning was just acting for her drama class.This is the first movie by the company "Catchphrase". Every actor of the movie is also in the "madteens" ensemble.

Taglines:
* First time to die?
* It has to end to start again.
* Caught in my own trap.and one used in the teaser for the movie:
* Vanessa Gallardo is desperate.

Cast

* Vanessa Gallardo as Anna
* Daniel Gröger as Dietmar
* Julia Warscher as Christine
* Claudia Czopak as Beate
* Daniel Bernsteiner as stranger
* Johannes Pirkebner as man without suit
* Lukas Kühbacher, Christoph Manucredo, Nicolas Moser and Alexandra Stern as students

Award

* The film was nominated for a Media Literacy Award in 2006. On September 26, 2006, it was announced that the short did not win.

oundtrack

My Shortest Death does mainly feature songs of other film scores. Those tracks include:
* "First Candy" and "Main Titles" from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (film) by Danny Elfman
* "A Rose" from American Beauty by Thomas Newman
* "Drive Away" from Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events by Thomas Newmanas well as
* The Jeopardy! "Think Music"