HANNAS REISE

HANNAS REISE (RETRO)

HANNAS REISE

Director: Julia von Heinz
Feature film | Germany | 2013
100 min | Dolby 5.1

59th Hof International Film Festival
2025
Retrospective Julia von Heinz

To advance her career, Hanna needs proof that she has done some volunteer work. Social skills are in demand. It is something that has not played a major part in her life to date. So, she tries to cheat her way around it. But her mother, head of “Action Peace Services for Israel”, arranges an internship for her in a village for disabled people in Tel Aviv. Hanna sets off on the journey rather reluctantly.

In Israel, everyone meets Hanna’s arrogant manner with incomprehension, whether those in her shared apartment or “her” Holocaust survivor, Gertraud. Her assigned mentor, Itay, leaves her high and dry. At the same time, he launches a flirtatious offensive that Hanna cannot resist. Hanna begins to see the world through Itay’s eyes. But the differences in their backgrounds come between them—until they realize that being together is all that matters.

With Andreas Borcherding, Claudia-Sofie Jelinek, Doron Amit, Karoline Schuch, Lia Koenig, Lore Richter, Martin Ontrop, Max Mauff, Suzanne von Borsody, Trystan Pütter

Screenplay Julia von Heinz, John Quester, Cinematography Daniela Knapp, Editing Florian Miosge, Production design Eytan Levy, Costume design Hila Bargiel, Casting Daniela Tolkien, Esther Kling, Music Matthias Petsche, Make-up Silke Dotzauer, Agnes Ellert, Production Jörg Siepmann, Harry Flöter