Quarterly 4 · 2006 - German Cinema

Leben mit Hannah
LIVING WITH HANNAH
Life with Hannah is anything but easy. She is young and
pretty, but also deeply mysterious and enigmatic. Floating
between her bare apartment and gloomy photo lab, she
has wrapped herself in a cocoon of inapproachability.
Neither her work colleagues nor her partner, daughter or
parents can pierce Hannah’s armor of rules, rituals and
barriers.
As this artificial sense of security is successively infiltrated
by an anonymous stranger, Hannah’s life slowly but
surely turns into a thriller that will blur the boundaries between
real danger and her inner demons. In her quest to
confront the invisible enemy, Hannah re-establishes
contact with her past and her equally repressed present.
Genre Melodrama Category Feature Film Cinema Year of
Production 2006 Director Erica von Moeller Screenplay
Soenke Lars Neuwoehner Director of Photography Sophie
Maintigneux Editor Gesa Marten Music by Axel Schweppe
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Production Design Birgit Esser Producer Titus Kreyenberg
Production Company unafilm/Cologne, in co-production with
ZDF Das kleine Fernsehspiel/Mainz, ARTE/Strasbourg Principal
Cast Nina Hoss, Isabel Bongard, Wolfram Koch, Matthias Brandt,
Marie-Lou Sellem, Milan Peschel Casting Anja Dihrberg Length
85 min, 2, 325 m Format 35 mm, color, 1:1.85 Original
Version German Subtitled Version English Sound
Technology Optical Stereo Festival Screenings Hof 2006
With backing from Filmstiftung NRW
Erica von Moeller was born in Wiesbaden in 1968. After studying
Fine Arts at the University of Mainz, she went on to study Film
at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne. A winner of numerous
awards, her films include: mariemarie (short, 1999), Nora and
Anna (1999), One Summer (short, 2002), Sainkho (documentary,
2002), For the Moment (short, 2004), Bittersweet
Breath (2005), and Living with Hannah (Leben mit
Hannah, 2006).
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Nina Hoss in “Living with Hannah” (photo © Thekla Ehling/unafilm)