Hans Weingartner — Director (5)

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Hut in the Woods (2011)
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汉斯·魏因加特纳 actor: Peter Schneider / 尤莉亚·延奇 …
other title: 林中小屋 / Die Summe meiner einzelnen Teile
Not so long ago, Martin was a gifted mathematician with a career and a steady girlfriend. But after a spell in psychiatric care, he is released with no job and no way of supporting himself, labelled as mentally ill. Viktor is a young Ukrainian boy recently orphaned following his mother's OD. When the two meet, Martin takes Victor under his wing, and fleeing the city, they escape to a forest where they manage to build a hut robust enough to live in. Though not easy, their back-to-nature subsistence life is idyllic by comparison to what they have left behind, and the pair become firm friends. Martin even meets a sympathetic young woman, Lena, who he encourages to live in a more idealistic way. But just as Martin has started to find happiness, harsh reality intervenesÖ Director Hans Weingartner is best known here for his second film, The Edukators, but his new film is closer to his debut feature, The White Noise (LFF 2000). In common with that film, Hut in the Woods takes a progressive view of mental illness, creating believable and likeable characters and telling their story with empathy and an enviable lightness of touch. Sandra Hebron London Film Festival

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Germany ’09 – 13 Short Films About the State of the Nation (2009)
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other title: 德国09 / Deutschland 09: 13 kurze Filme zur Lage der Nation …
Over sixty years after the end of the Second World War, forty years after the student revolts of 1968, thirty years after the “German Autumn” of 1977, twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and, in the midst of the social upheaval caused by the reforms of “Agenda 2010” as the country moves into the globalised world of the 21st century, a group of German film directors have come together to create a panoramic impression – each from their own individual point of view – of the social and political climate in today’s Federal Republic. Each of the directors involved in this episodic film has created their personal cinematic take on present-day Germany. 招蘇珊桑塔格和《赤色風暴》女恐怖分子的魂;通街都是塔利班,窮小子必然是小偷。這邊拆舊樓是忘記「德國童年」,那邊放棄歌德字體,編輯要死。《黑金殺機》湯泰華扯頭纜,13導演響應,有《快樂的謊言》的胡夫根貝嘉、《玩謝希特拉》的丹尼李維、去年焦點導演《收視大騎劫》的漢斯雲格拿,和《天堂邊緣》的法堤艾金等,劇情片外也有論文和抒情詩紀錄片另類觀察。精彩對白摘錄:每個人都可以成為恐怖分子/德國已沒有人挨餓/德國需要一記腦震盪/德國已矣,他們相信不已。角度縱橫勁抽有深度有態度,絕非只有浪漫溫馨,模仿《我愛巴黎》。

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303 (2018)
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★ 6.7 6 ratings
汉斯·魏因加特纳 actor: 玛拉·昂德 / 安东·斯皮克 …
other title: 三零三
303讲述了两个大学生Jule(Mala Emde)和Jan(Anton Spieker)各怀心事,在一场老露营后离开柏林,踏上了前往南方旅途的故事。他们对世界进行哲学的思考和热烈讨论,导演汉斯·温格特纳与两位年轻演员在非常惊险的背景下保持着自然亲密的接触。温格特纳曾为“情系电影德国09”以及“13国家短片大赛”做出巨大贡献,并且于2006年担任GWFF最佳特征奖评委会成员,此次这部《303》是他在柏林电影节的第二次回归。