A film by Hannah Schweier
Duration: 103 minutes, Germany, 2020, German with English subtitles
‘A story about homeland, family and letting go.’
Berta Zenefels (eighty-four) has never seen the sea. She has barely ever left her beloved farm, the ‘Zollhaus’ in Bavaria. Day after day the born landlady was standing in the kitchen, where she fried thousands of Schnitzels for her guests. A life shaped by hard work, a life that nobody wants to live anymore. During her lifetime she had to bury her firstborn son, her husband, her grand-son and her youngest son. Every single one of them lived and died for the big dream of the ‘Zollhaus’. But without a successor the heavily indebted farm is threatened with bankruptcy. But now the granddaughter Monika (thirty-four) appears out of nowhere and decides to save the family-owned farm, regardless of her high-school diploma, yearlong stays abroad and a degree. Monika’s sister and this film‘s director, Hannah Schweier (thirty-nine), is not too happy about her sister’s idea. Until that moment, their lives and dreams were inseparably connected, but since Monika has been working on the farm, she doesn’t have any spare time left. That is why Hannah decides to find out what motivates her sister and whether she will be able to truly find eventual happiness.
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Hannah Schweier
Born in Munich in 1980, Hannah Schweier studied philosophy, psychology and science of theater from 1999-2001 before enrolling in the film direction program at Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg from 2003-2010. Her short film ‘Aufrecht stehen’ opened the ‘Perspektive Deutsches Kino’ at the Berlinale in 2007. In 2008, she won the ‘Scholz & Friends’ Scholarship for Creative Excellence. Her debut film ‘Cindy Liebt Mich Nicht’ premiered in 2010 at Berlinale and had a theatrical release. After graduation, she concentrated on screenwriting, earning a scholarship to the 2013/2014 ‘Drehbuchwerkstatt’ Munich. In 2018-19 Hannah wrote the script for the film ‘Into The Beat’, along with finishing her first award-winning autobiographic documentary feature ‘80,000 Schnitzel’ financed by ZDF Kleines Fernsehspiel. Hannah Schweier works as a writer-director in Berlin and is represented by the ‘Henschel Schauspiel’ agency.
This programme is open to all on a first come first served basis at the Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Kolkata.
COVID protocols applied.
You can also watch the film online through this link or on the Goethe-Institut Kolkata Facebook page on the scheduled date and time.
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