Country: Belgium, France, Germany
Year: 1994
Duration: 110'


The thirty year old Orf thinks he is as free as the wind, now that communism is little more than a Kafkaesque souvenir. He thinks he is able to decide his own life and the place where he will set himself up Prague or somewhere else in any case at the side of the lovely Sarka. Neither art nor money are important for him. However one day some very valuable erotic paintings disappear. A man is killed during the robbery. Orf finds himself suddenly hunted as a killer and thief He has to defend his life. He has to sell it in exchange for some art works that cost a lot of money. Now Orf hurls himself into a desperate battle to defend his own right to love Sarka. The thirst for life of this young man from Prague leads him to the edge of the abyss.


Biography

film director

Peter Woditsch

Peter Woditsch was born in Germany at the end of the 1950's. When he was 17, he moved to Paris to study philosophy. However, what he learnt was mainly French and he did many jobs. He learned more from than his studies was his job as cashier at a movie theater He studied film at INSAS in Brussels, where he shot his first short film, L'amour, l'amour, l'argent. He later moved to Karlovy Vary and to Prague, a city that swept him off his feet and where he directed a short film (Prague: partir ou rester), a middle-length film (No pour dire oui), and finally his first feature film (Hey Stranger).

FILMOGRAFIA

Hey Stranger (1994).

Declaration

film director

"I chose my exile myself. I left Germany when I was 17 and I lived in France, and now I live in Brussels. This is a path that certainly oriented the writing of my film.... When I set toot in Prague for the first time, it was like rediscovering all those things that I could not have seen, felt and lived through when I was young. I could not explain it, but the story of my first film had to be set there..." (Peter Woditsch).

Cast

& Credits

Director: Peter Woditsch.
Screenplay: Sophie Schoukens, Peter Woditsch.
Director of photography: Elfi Mikesch.
Art director: Pierre Decraen.
Editor: Ludo Troch.
Music: Mark Verhaegen.
Sound: Henri Morelle.
Cast and characters: Vincent Rouche (Orf), Bénédicte Loyen (Sarka), Hanna Schygulla (Tania), Guy Tréjan (Skolimowski), Jacques Seiler (Frans), William Hickey (maggiordomo), Julien Schoenaerts, Howard Vernon.
Produttori: Alfred Hürmer, Sophie Schoukens.
Production company: Sophimages sprl, Quai au foin, 29, bte 13, B1000 Bruxelles, Belgium, tel. +3222230479, fax +3222195063; alert Film GmbH, MarkgrafAlbrechtstrasse, 14, D10711 Berlin, Germany, tel. +4913237085, fax +4913240841.
Foreign sales agent: Cine Electra, National House, 2nd Floor, 6066 Wardour Street, London W1V 3HP.
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