Hans

In the organizer's words:

Anti-Semitic continuities in post-war West Germany

"Hans - A Boy from Germany" is an adaptation of the autobiographical novel "The Blue Hour" by Hans Frick. It tells the story of the youth of Hans, the son of a German factory worker and an unknown Jewish father in the midst of German society under National Socialism. Mother and son live together with their sick grandmother in a small apartment in Frankfurt's Gallus district. They are subjected to constant abuse from the petty bourgeoisie, who are obsessed with anti-Semitism, as well as the air raids that have plagued Frankfurt since the beginning of the war. One day, the Gestapo arrive at the door. Hans flees.

In his two-and-a-half-hour epic, screenwriter and director Sohrab Shahid Saless tells of anti-Semitic continuities in post-war West Germany under American occupation. There is no caesura here, no "zero hour".

DIRECTOR: Sohrab Shahid Saless
SCREENWRITER: Sohrab Shahid Saless
CAST: Martin Pasko, Imke Barnstedt, Yane Bittlová
PICTURE DESIGN: Ramin Reza Molai
ORIGINAL PREVIEW: based on Hans Frick's novel "Blue Hour"
ASSEMBLY: Gabriele Rosenhagen
COSTUME DESIGN: Ute Burgmann
MASK PICTURE: Ignác Serina
PRODUCER:IN/PRODUCER:IN: Dietmar Schings
Federal Republic of Germany, France, Czechoslovakia (1985)