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Hog Heaven

How much knowledge does manhood need?

A biblical lesson - disguised as a trashy musical persiflage - that catapults the audience from the Fall to the Apocalypse.

HOG HEAVEN

HOG HEAVEN

Monika Anna Wojtyllo
HOG HEAVEN
HOG HEAVEN
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How much knowledge does manhood need?

 

The film Hog Heaven asks this question by exposing the drama of the Fall and the heroic epic of creating a better world in the here and now as posse.

The painful failure to which man seems to have been condemned always points him to a better world elsewhere; It is not for nothing that the German word "suffering" comes from the Middle High German "li-dan" for "to go abroad".

 

The two Polish exiles Adam and Ewa Kołakowski do the same. Paradise is what they don't have, what is far away, it is the West, a promise, a utopia.

 

We are all condemned to wander around baseless, or - as Sartre put it: “Damned to freedom, people have to see again and again what they do with themselves and their existence.

 

”But the problem is - as the philosopher Leszek Kołakowski rightly recognized:

“Man's self-deification, (…) ends like all individual and collective attempts at self-deification. It turns out to be the farcical aspect of human inadequacy. ”

 

FEATURE FILM, 2006, 22MIN, 16MM, HFF KONRAD WOLF

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DIRECTOR & WRITER
Monika Anna Wojtyllo


CAMERA

Rasmus Siewers


MUSIC

Armin Pommeranz

EDITOR

Silvia Ruszev

PRODUCER

Grit Fischer

CAST

Christoph Leszczynski

Brygida Mich

Marie Biermann

Dirk Wäger

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