![]() ![]() Austria didn’t go through the same process of de-nazification as Germany itself did after the Second World War, and Gruber doesn’t flinch in examining the unresolved racial tensions and the sense of victimhood that wove themselves into Austrian post-war society. ![]() We see these tensions play out in the lives of 10-year-old Hanna (Nike Seitz), her mother (Franziska Weisz), a Jewish woman converted to Catholicism who lives by the motto “don’t stick out”, and her grandmother (Hannelore Elsner), who is increasingly impatient with the secrecy and repression that still control her family’s life.Īndreas Gruber’s film, an adaptation of Elisabeth Escher’s semi-autobiographical novel of the same name, is an interesting treatment of the legacy of National Socialism in Austria. Although over twenty years have passed since the fall of the Third Reich, wartime tensions still linger below the surface of everyday life. Hanna’s Sleeping Dogs ( Hannas schlafende Hunde) (2016) takes place in the Austrian town of Wels during the late 1960s, only a short distance from the Mauthausen Concentration Camp. They say that sleeping dogs should be let to lie, but history is never truely dormant. Where: German Film Festival at the Palace Nova Cinema Eastend Raging Fire is currently in theaters.What: Hanna’s Sleeping Dogs (Hannas schlafende Hunde) But let me just focus on getting this film made first."Ĭheck out exactly what Yen told us in the player above and look for our full interview with him soon. I can visualize the whole look of this film. Because it's like, I don't want to lose my fire, this raging fire, I still have a bit, that we still have with Sleeping Dogs. "I have different conversations with so many peoples involved, to a point where, let me just get this movie going first. On the subject of possibly turning the film into a franchise, Yen continued: "Most likely," he said, "we're probably gonna' make more of a modern, updated version of Sleeping Dogs." Yen notes that he does have the filmmaking rights to Sleeping Dogs, and that the current conversations-which he told us has been a few years of "talking and talking and talking"-are centered around whether to directly adapt the game or simply take elements of it to make an original story. Kind of like Raging Fire, but even more edgier because I'm playing an undercover. This could be a perfect contemporary action world that I could do.' And it already has a fan base, right? It's Infernal Affairs. When I look at this material, I said, 'Wow. I want to go back to.contemporary action. They pretty much borrowed some of my actions, and even the image.Īnd I said, 'Oh, that could be a fun vehicle.' Because like I said, I was caught in that 12, 13 years of the Ip Man image. 'Hey, there's some of my moves.' And then I did some research, and I found some article saying that.the people who created this game, created a world, they're fans of mine. This game is perfect." e showed me the cover, and the guy actually looked a little like what I did in my other films, right? And I looked at some of the clips, the way they fight. We all make them, shitty films, right? I made a film called The Iceman, a few years ago, right? One of the producers came to me and said, "Oh, you know, Donnie, I saw this game. ![]()
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