Film Screening “Fortune Favors the Brave” with Director Norbert Lechner

Fri 09 Sep 2016, 8 pm
Sat 10 Sep 2016, 4 pm
National Cinema Center

From Goethe Institut:

Director Norbert Lechner will present his film about two Vietnamese girls in Germany, with the presence of famous actress Chieu Xuan and actor Manh Cuong.

The Goethe-Institut is pleased to announce that we will welcome Norbert Lechner as a special guest of this year’s German Film Festival in Vietnam. The director, screenwriter and film producer has a focus on children’s and youth films, and so particularly our young guests can look forward to meet him. Norbert Lechner will present his film “Fortune Favors the Brave” in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, together with Vietnamese actors who worked on this film in Germany, and the team will be available to answer questions from the audience afterwards.

In “Fortune Favors the Brave” the child actors with Vietnamese roots, Lynn Dortschack and Linda Phuong Anh Dang, perform alongside the in Vietnam well-known actors Chieu Xuan, Manh Cuong and Dinh Y Nhung. The film tells the story of an unusual friendship between the Vietnamese sisters Linh and Tien and the adventurous Pauline.

Director Norbert Lechner born in 1961 in Munich, founded the film production company “Kevin Lee” in 1990 while he was still studying German, philosophy and art history and realized his first feature-length movie with the relationship drama “Wounded Faces” (1991). His children’s films “Toni Goldwascher” (2007) and “Tom und Hacke” (2012) have won several awards, as well as his latest film “Fortune favors the brave”, which comes out in German cinemas in summer 2016.

We will be showing the film “Fortune Favors The Brave” for the second time on 10.9.2016, 4 PM at the same venue, without the presence of director Norbert Lechner.

Language: German with Vietnamese and English subtitles

Tickets

Free tickets available from 05.09.2016 at the Goethe-Institut Hanoi.

Watch the film’s trailer here: