HoF Filmtage Rendezvous at the KoKi Hanover with FRANK MEYER

    FRANK MEYER

    At the monthly HoF Filmtage Rendezvous at the Koki Hanover with Wiebke and Johannes Thomsen and their team, the GRANIT Hof Documentary Award winning film FRANK MEYER (57th Hof International Film Festival) will be screened on Thursday, 18 January 2024 at 8 pm. The filmmakers Leonhard Hofmann and Riccardo Dejan Jurkovic will be present.

    The film follows Frank Meyer, a retired bodybuilder, for more than ten years. He comes to terms with his violent childhood and questions his masculinity. Despite a stroke, heart attack and kidney failure, Frank Meyer trains excessively and hopes to come back at some point.

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    "FRANK MEYER is a film that could not be more topical in theme and form. It is a film that belongs on the big screen and impressively proves that cinema documentaries from Germany can be fresh and lively."

    From the GRANIT jury statement
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    The GRANIT - Hof Documentary Award 2023 goes to FRANK MEYER by Leonhard Hofmann and Riccardo Dejan Jurkovic.

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