Feature Film Competition

NATIONAL PREMIERE
HANS IM GLÜCK - VON EINEM, DER AUSZOG, DAS RAUCHEN LOSZUWERDEN
Lucky Jack - The Smoker Film
Peter Liechti, SWITZERLAND, 2003, 90', col., 35mm
Director Peter Liechti
Script Peter Liecthti
Screenplay Peter Liechti
Cameraman Peter Liechti
Editing Tania Stoecklin
Music Norbert Moeslang
Production Liechti Filmproduktion, in coproduzione con SF DRS, Paul Riniker e Madeleine Hirsiger
Distribution accent films international ltd.

Peter Leichti decided to give up smoking and in order to smother his nicotine cravings, he started to make long excursions to the mountains with a video camera. After three vain attempts and three excursions, Peter accumulated around one hundred hours of filmed footage and a ninety page diary, which gave life to a road-movie crossing his homeland, Switzerland. The film unites his love for his homeland with a reflection on the importance of travelling.

DIRECTOR
Peter Leichti was born in 1951 in San Gallo. He studied the history of art at Zurich university and received a diploma in design at the Academy of Arts. He has worked as a freelance script-writer, director and operator since 1986. An experimental director, his first attempts are documentaries: and the 1991 video with Nan June Paik, "A Hole in the Hat". The documentary "Grimsel" won the jury award at the Festival Cinema Giovani in Turin in 1990, while his first feature film "Martha's Garden" was produced in 1997. "Hans im Glueck" has been nominated for the Joris Ivens Award. His latest documentary "Namibia Crossings" is a film following the same travel theme.

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