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Andreas Hoessli is known for Devils Don't Dream! (1995), The Naked King (2019) and Epoca: The Making of History (2002).
- Andreas Hoessli
- Under Surveillance in Poland
- The Years of The Iranian Revolution
- Capturing Images of Iran
- Tracking Things Down in Poland
- 'Solidarnosc': A Shift Toward Democracy in Poland
- Crushing The Democracy Movement
Hoessli knew Kapuscinski personally. From 1978 to 1980, the Swiss director lived in Warsaw as a research fellow and traveled around the country a great deal. "[Kapuscinski] was a kind of mentor to me, in all matters," the filmmaker told DW. The mass strikes in Poland, the revolutionary upheaval, the euphoria, the struggle of the trade union movemen...
Hoessli traveled to Iran a total of four times for his film. He places unusual interlocutors in front of the camera: journalist Paris Rafie, who describes the sense of fear and oppression; writer Amir Hassan Cheheltan, who had to flee to Italy to escape assassination attempts by the secret service; and the young filmmaker Negar Tahsili, who traces ...
Hoessli was arrested three different times while in Iran. To this day, he does not know which of the many Iranian secret services were involved. The images he managed to capture on camera in this Islamic republic are impressive and unusual: artistic film stills, quiet snapshots of faces, of nighttime street scenes, of bustling urban boulevards. "I ...
Meanwhile, while researching the film back in Poland, Hoessli requested to see the Polish secret service files about him. "I found extensive material, strange material. It seemed to express how a great degree of helplessness was gripping state institutions as they faced a revolution in the making," he said. In the film, the director also meets his ...
Black-and-white archival footage, shot by cameraman Jacek Petryki, reveals the upheaval in Poland during the early 1980s. "I see men, in groups, at the Gdansk shipyard. No one is chanting slogans; there are no protest marches in the streets, no raised fists, just pensive faces," a voice comments in the film. In an interview with Hoessli, Petryki de...
Yet it all came to an end on December 13, 1981: Tanks rolled up to the occupied steel mills and shipyards, and the government imposed martial law. The Solidarnosc trade union was banned and its leaders arrested. In August 1982, a pedestrian at a banned demonstration in Warsaw filmed a man being run over by a military truck as he was attempting to f...
Andreas Hoessli (* 1950 in Zürich) ist ein Schweizer Filmregisseur und Journalist
A film by Andreas Hoessli. Synopsis. 1979, Revolution in Iran. 1980, Revolution in Poland. The fall of the Shah, the "King of Kings" in Iran, mass strikes and the "Solidarnosc" movement in Poland. What happened in the minds of the young women and men who were involved in the revolutions at the time?
Jun 5, 2019 · The Naked King – 18 Fragments on Revolution. by Giorgia Del Don. 05/06/2019 - Swiss director and journalist Andreas Hoessli talks to us about revolution through the eyes of those who lived through it in all its glories and defeats.
- Giorgia Del Don
Jun 5, 2019 · Swiss director and journalist Andreas Hoessli talks to us about revolution through the eyes of those who lived through it in all its glories and defeats . 05/06/2019 | Films | Reviews
Jun 4, 2020 · Swiss journalist and film-maker Andreas Hoessli talks about the connection between the Iranian Revolution and Poland’s Solidarity movement, how we represent history, and his new film “The Naked King”.
