The flood- death on the dike

Story

Screen adaptation of the mystery novel Hauke Haiens Tod by Andrea Paluch and Robert Habeck. During a storm surge on the North Sea coast in 2007, farm worker Iven takes 3-year old Wienke, the daughter of dike warden Hauke Haien and his wife Elke, to Hamburg and leaves her outside a children’s home. Iven becomes a doorman in St. Pauli. 15 years later, he is visited by a young woman. She wants to know who she is and where she comes from. And she wants him to find her parents. Unwillingly, for he too has a past he would prefer to forget, Iven takes her to the village of Stegebüll on the coast. For the pair, a dramatic journey back in time begins to the fateful events in Stegebüll and the downfall of Hauke Haien and his family.

Director

Since the 2000s, ANDREAS PROCHASKA (*1964 in Vienna) has made numerous films for cinema and TV which have won many awards and some of which were also shown at FILMFEST HAMBURG, most recently The Geheimnis of the Totenwaldes (2020).