Why Hans Wagner hates the starry sky
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| Original title | Why Hans Wagner hates the starry sky |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2013 |
| length | 75 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK Unchecked |
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| Director | Lars Kokemüller |
| script | Lars Kokemüller |
| production | Lars Kokemüller |
| camera | Kathrin Enghusen |
| cut | Kathrin Enghusen |
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Why Hans Wagner hates the starry sky is a German feature film with horror and comedy elements from 2013 .
action
Hans Wagner sits alone in his apartment, watches TV and keeps quiet with pills and whiskey. One day when both of them are gone, he has to leave the apartment to buy more. This is a major task for the young man plagued by neuroses .
After all sorts of emotions returned to him on the way to the supermarket that he hadn't felt for a long time, at the end of the trip he fell in love with the cashier at first sight. Outside the supermarket, Hans meets a homeless man named Hobbit, with whom he befriends. Hans tells Hobbit about the cashier and that he doesn't dare to speak to her. Hobbit persuades Hans to attend a speed dating event in order to lose his fear.
During speed dating, Hans meets the cheeky Amélie and as a result, she, Hans and Hobbit become good friends.
One morning a fairy stands by Hans' bed and offers to grant him a wish. After turning Hans' table into a dog to prove that she can actually do magic , Hans wishes the cashier from the supermarket to fall in love with him. The fairy explains that she personally does not master this type of magic . But she offers Hans to introduce him to someone who does that. Through Hans' wardrobe they enter an abstract world in which the magician Gregor lives. Gregor wants to fulfill Hans' wish when he gives him a dream in exchange . Hans agrees and shortly afterwards wakes up in his bed. For a moment he thinks he has only dreamed it all, but then he sees the dog, into which the fairy has turned his table, sitting next to his bed.
Hans now goes to the supermarket full of joy. When he arrives and the cashier sees him, she wants to run happily into his arms, but is suddenly run over by a car and dies.
Devastated, Hans goes back home and tries to get back to Gregor to undo everything. When he realizes that his closet is just an ordinary closet, he smashes it in a fit of anger.
After Hans has been lying in his devastated apartment for a while and getting drunk, Amélie calls him, realizes that something is wrong with her boyfriend and comes over. She takes care of him and stays overnight. Hans is plagued by nightmares and when he wakes up the next morning he discovers that his dog has been brutally killed as he dreamed it was. He leaves the apartment and leaves Amélie alone with the dead dog.
In the seemingly deserted city, Hans meets Gregor, who tells him that he wants to conjure up "old gods" with the help of his dream . When Hans tries to hit Gregor, he disappears.
Amélie decides to watch TV in her apartment. First, the news warns of an approaching storm , then the program switches and Amélie witnesses two men beating and kidnapping Hobbit. The program changes again and a mysterious man with completely black eyes stares into the camera. Suddenly the dead dog gets up and goes to the television.
Hobbit is eaten alive by a sect-like group that follows Gregor on his instructions.
Confused, Hans stumbles through the city. He meets the distraught Amélie who, after a short chat and a hug, asks him to leave. When she coughs and spits blood, Hans runs, frightened, to get help. Amélie gets up and suddenly pounces on Hans, who kills her in self-defense.
Gregor is in a completely black dream world, where he meets the mysterious man with the black eyes. The man turns out to be the guardian of the “old gods” that Gregor wanted to conjure up and is angry. He makes it clear that it is not yet the time to invoke the old gods, and that a person has no right to do so anyway. He forces Gregor to tear his heart out of his chest.
Hans continues to wander the streets disoriented and finally meets the mysterious man. He asks him what happened, but the man simply replies that Hans doesn't understand. Hans dies and the narrator of the film explains that a short time later a message went around the world from a city that one day simply stood empty for no apparent reason.
production
“Why Hans Wagner hates the starry sky” was filmed in and around Hamburg in 2013 with a budget of only € 1,500. Among other things, the stage and structures of a children's theater served as a backdrop.
The film was produced by the Hamburg group Radikal & Arrogant, which had previously produced short films and a play. Lars Kokemüller
is the director of the film . He wrote the script during breaks in filming on the set of the Australian television series In Your Dreams, in which he played a leading role.
The film plays with genre conventions and narrative elements. It starts as a romantic comedy and slowly turns into a horror film with references to the Cthulhu myth by HP Lovecraft . Towards the end, the film becomes more and more absurd and told in very artificial dream scenes. Among other things, there is also a musical interlude.
criticism
“As catchy and obedient as the film begins, it ends in a disastrous, pessimistic and cryptic manner. A film that gives hope to the next generation of German filmmakers. "
"A little bit of everything, with a good helping of trash."
“Every time the viewer wants to settle in one of these worlds, the beautiful, evil or quirky appearance is over and a new chapter in the life of Hans Wagner is opened. It starts as a depressive milieu drama, ranges from a trash fairy tale with a Bollywood insert to a horror farce as if a rogue were deconstructing the fairy tale of Hans im Glück. "
Premiere and rental
The film premiered on November 24, 2013 in the 3001 cinema in Hamburg. It was then included in the catalog of the Drop Out Cinema distributor . The film was also shown at the Obsessive Underground Festival .
Web links
- Why Hans Wagner hates the stars in theInternet Movie Database(English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3969100/trivia?ref_=tt_trv_trv
- ↑ “Why Hans Wagner hates the starry sky” PREMIERE ( Memento from August 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ WHY HANS WAGNER HATES THE STARRY SKY (2013) ( Memento from August 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Ulrike Mau: Between fairy tales & horror comedy. In: welt.de . February 27, 2014, accessed October 7, 2018 .