Haunritz

Johanna and Thomas go to the countryside. They don’t have much to talk about. But when a stranger shows up, their silence breaks. Suddenly everything's on the cards.

Cast

Johanna
Annette Frier
Thomas
Peter Trabner
Abey
Daniel Popat
Stumm vor Schreck - Poster 1

Haunritz

Daniel Popat

  • Fiction
Production Country / Year
Germany 2022
Language
de., en. OF ohne UT
Format
DCP, Color, 79min
2.39:1, Discrete 5.1
Original Title
Stumm vor Schreck

Director & Crew

Daniel Popat 1

Daniel Popat

Born in 1990 in Munich. Studied Acting at the Anton Bruckner Conservatory in Linz/Austria and at the East 15 Acting School in London. Studies Directing at the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg. Active as an actor, writer and director.  

Filmography

2018 HOSTEL, Kurzfilm

2020 BERLIN TO BOMBAY (Co-Regie), Dokumentarfilm

2021 ALL IN, Mini-Series

2022 STUMM VOR SCHRECK, Spielfilm  HOF 2022

“STUMM VOR SCHRECK is based on my short film JESSAS from 2016. I was in the final round of applications for the directing course at the Film Academy Vienna. Michael Haneke set a final film task for the remaining applicants. The sentence ‘My God, just believe me’ was to be the theme of the short film. So I opened the Bible, and the idea of the Immaculate Conception captivated me. In the end, it wasn’t enough for a place at the Film Academy in Vienna. However, Haneke’s feedback that the material could be something for a longer film still resonated with me four years later.

In 2020, in just under four days of shooting in a Bavarian village, without a script and with two actors improvising, I made my first film STUMM VOR SCHRECK. Johanna and Thomas have a relationship that is not all that rare. They don’t talk, silent conflicts in everyday life, intrigues and lies from their common past determine the present. Everyone would like harmony, but many avoid an honest exchange of words. I put this apparent harmony to the test between my two protagonists – in the end they either go their separate ways or lead an honest relationship again. To be (happy) or not to be (happy). But nothing in between.”

Daniel Popat

Writer
Daniel Popat
Director of Photography
Elias C. J. Köhler
Editor
Maren Unterburger
Daniel Popat
Production Designer
Daniel Popat
Casting Director
Daniel Popat
Sound
Christian Wiechers
Music Composer
Chiara Strickland
Executive Producer
Daniel Popat
Producer
Daniel Popat