A Whole Life

Story

Peaks and troughs: Hans Steinbichler with an impressive screen adaptation of the eponymous novel by Robert Seethaler. The Austrian Alps around 1900. No-one knows exactly how old the orphan child Andreas is when he arrives at the Kranzstocker farmstead. The God-fearing, but violent farmer takes him in as he’s cheap labour. But no sooner has Egger grown up than he joins a team of men building one of the first cable cars lines, which will bring electricity and tourists to the valley. With the money he’s saved, Egger rents a wooden hut in the mountains and creates a home for himself and his love Marie. But their happiness doesn’t last, the Second World War breaks out and Egger is sent to the front.

 

 

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Director

HANS STEINBICHLER (*1966 in Switzerland) studied at the HFF Munich and won several awards for his debut film Hierankl (2003). His screen adaptation of The Diary of Anne Frank had its premiere at the Berlinale in 2016.

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