Opening of German Film Festival 2014 with “Visitors”

Thu 04 Sep 2014, 7 pm
National Cinema Centre

From Goethe Institute:

At the opening of the 5th German Film Festival in Vietnam the special guests Constanz Knoche and Leis Bagdach, the director and script writer of “Visitors”, will be present and look forward to a Q&A with the audience.

Visitors

Genre: Drama
Colour, 92 minutes, Germany 2013
age rating 16+
German with English and Vietnamese subtitles.

When Jakob (59) surprises his three grown-up children with a visit in Berlin, they start to panic: With hands and feet they try to hide their lack of independence from their father and themselves. But step by step, the spontaneous action of a usually not at all spontaneous man turns to be a pleasant shock therapy for all family members – including Hanna, Jakob’s wife and mother of the children, who completes the family. With pointed dialogues, VISITORS tells the story of the reconciliation of a family that has drifted apart long ago. At the end one realizes that not only children have to emancipate from their parents, but above all the parents have to emancipate from their children.

You will find more about the film “Visitors” as well as the whole film calendar for Hanoi in the festival’s website.

Free tickets available from 12 pm on 25th August 2014 at:
Goethe-Institut Hanoi, 56-58 Nguyen Thai Hoc
Tel. (04) 37 34 22 51/52/53 (ext. 9)

Constanze Knoche was born in Magdeburg. She completed studies in dramaturgy at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig and studied direction at the University for Film Konrad Wolf in Potsdam Babelsberg as well as the Film Academy Vienna and the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema Lissabon. Since 2007 she has been working as an independent director, author and producer for Film in Berlin.

Leis Bagdach was born in Cologne. He studied German Studies and Theater at the University of Leipzig, with the focus on script writing. After that he attended dramaturgy seminars in Berlin where he has been working as an independent author and producer since 2000. Leis Bagdach has staged several theater plays, works regularly for TV channels and produces and writes feature and documentary films in collaboration with Constanze Knoche.