HITZSCHLAG
Director: Christian Bach
Short film | D | 2005
20 min | Dolby SR
39th Hof International Film Festival
2005
Salad days. The sun is near zenith. Nerves are worn to a frazzle. Sodom wherever you look, and Hedwig’s on a mission to prevent the worst. And precisely that’s what she sees in Eduard Kampfgarten, a drunkard and aggressive prole. For her, Kampfgarten is a trial sent by God, a personal challenge after many years of passive, dull mission work. It’s this pitiful sinner she has to save, to put back on the straight and narrow. And so she and her novice venture into the lion’s den …