Film screening
Ja, Andrei Iwanowitsch - Film about a Life

On the occasion of International Human Rights Day

Fri, 09.12.2022
7:30 PM Black Box Studio

On the occasion of International Human Rights Day, the Goethe-Institut Hongkong is pleased to organise the screening of "Ja, Andrei Iwanowitsch - Film about a Life", a documentary film by Hannes Farlock. 

Director Hannes Farlock will give an introduction and moderate the post-screening talk. 

Germany, Belarus / 2018 / 70 mins / colour
In Russian and German with English subtitles
Director: Hannes Farlock

Are we able to forget?

The hero of the film is an ordinary person whose name is Andrei Iwanowitsch, born in 1926 in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. He goes to work, he travels, he helps his neighbors, he lives an active love life. But there is something that makes him stand out. If looking closer we understand that he seems to possess the recipe for eternal and fulfilling life, although fate tested him very hard. When he was 15 years old he was deported to the Buchenwald concentration camp, he survived and didn’t give up even in post-war years when one after the other of his family tragically died. The canny way he masters his everyday life is contrasted with his tough life story. Now being 92 years, he is on his own but completely happy. The film shows "someone whose tragic fate and his still difficult life circumstances could not take away his dignity and joy of life, who never gave up himself and his belief in the good in the world," writes director Hannes Farlock on the film's homepage.
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© Hannes Farlock

Farlock was born 1981 in Erlangen, Germany. His civil service he spent in Cracow, Poland, where he took care of the last survivors of the Auschwitz concentration camp. At university, he founded a student theatre group and staged contemporary plays. During his professional career he had the chance to build on this, he was part of various film projects out of which he developed a deep interest for telling real life stories himself. The last 10 years he worked and traveled extensively in Eastern Europe, working for the German Chamber Network. Since August 2022 he is Delegate and Chief Representative at German Industry and Commerce in Hong Kong. “Ja, Andrei Iwanowitsch” is his first own feature-length documentary film.