ALS GROSSVATER RITA HAYWORTH LIEBTE
WHEN GRANDPA LOVED RITA HAYWORTH
After the Soviet troops march into Prague in 1968, Hannah and her family emigrate to West Germany. Only grandfather Zikmunt, the most important person in Hannah’s life, remains in Czechoslovakia. For the new arrivals, the first days in Germany are a sobering experience. Hannah’s financially pressed parents eventually decide to go home.
But Hannah persuades her family to turn back shortly before they reach the border. Although it was difficult to get used to her new world, she feels it offers more opportunities than the more secure, but less free, life in Czechoslovakia.
35mm | Farbe / colour
Iva Švarcová
Hille Sagel
Pavol Jasowský, Ingo Pusswald
Harald Turzer
Annette Focks
Karen Fischer, Vlastimil Broský, Veronika Albrechtová, Ewa Gawryluk, Vladimír Hajdu, Dagmar Manzel, Charles Bauer
Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (Germany) Bernhard Lang AG (Switzerland)
Švarc Film
Iva Svarcova & Malte Ludin
Schillerpromenade 30
12049 Berlin
Germany
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Iva Švarcová - born 1961 in Písek. After studies in scriptwriting, directing and production at the Berlin dffb film school, she now works as a freelance filmmaker in the German capital. In 2000 WHEN GRANDPA LOVED RITA HAYWORTH won in Cottbus the Children and Youth Prize.
VIOLA (1986, doc)
WITH LOVE RITA (1989, short)
DIE FRAU SEINES LEBENS (1990, short)
SCHALOM UND GUTEN TAG, TATJANA (1991)
MULO – EINE ZIGEUNERGESCHICHTE (1992, mid)
BLICK DURCHS FENSTER (1994, mid)
HANNAHS RAGTIME (1997)
ALS GROSSVATER RITA HAYWORTH LIEBTE (2000, Best Children und Youth Film, Cottbus 2000)