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.
 
Norbert Lechner

© Goethe-Institut Hanoi 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.