Hans im Glück
Lucky Jack – Three Attempts to Stop Smoking
Jean le Bienheureux – Trois tentatives d'arrêter le tabac
Switzerland, August 2003
FILM,
Documentary,
88 min.
- directed by
- Peter Liechti
- Written by
- Peter Liechti
- Status
- In distribution
- Website
- www.peterliechti.ch/filme/hans_im_glueck
The story of a man who sets out to get rid of his habit of smoking. Thus he plans to walk from Zurich, his present residence, “back” to his native town St. Gallen, where he started to smoke a long time ago. He is prepared to repeat this journey – everytime choosing another route – so often until his goal has been achieved: finally non-smoker! By way of the ritual walking across the countryside and the strict ban on smoking he imposes on himself on the way, he hopes to be freed of his burdening vices. This search for the source of his addiction becomes more and more an actual search for his home, an attempt to re-establish the connection with his own origin. All these landscapes, encounters and recollections, that he walks through on his mostly rather strange non-smoker’s trips, finally form the basis to a cinematic heaven and hell ride right across his fatherland – with occasional excursions far beyond the borders. « Lucky Jack» is a reckoning and a declaration of love. A road movie for pedestrians, a film in regional setting for homeless people. A dedication to all smokers and other addicts, to all unlucky devils who have still remained decent – and of course to Lucky Jacks everywhere.
credits
- World Premiere
- August 2003
- Original Version
- Swiss-German, German, colour, 35mm, 88 min.
- Production
- Liechti Filmproduktion GmbH, SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen
- Producer
- Peter Liechti
- directed by
- Peter Liechti
- Written by
- Peter Liechti
- Cinematography
- Peter Liechti
- Editing
- Tania Stöcklin
- Music
- Norbert Möslang, voice crack
- Location Sound Mix
- Dieter Lengacher
World Sales / World Rights
- World Rights
- Liechti Filmproduktion GmbH
Worldwide Distribution
- Switzerland
- Look Now! Distribution
Awards
(a selection)
- Duisburg, Duisburger Filmwoche / vhs, 3SAT-Dokumentarfilmpreis für den besten deutschsprachigen Dokumentarfilm 2004 (Winner)
- Zürich, Filmpreis Stadt Zürich, Zürcher Filmpreis 2003 (Winner)
Festivals
(a selection)
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Munich, 30. DOK.fest Internationales Dokumentarfilmfestival München
07.05.2015 - 17.05.2015 -
Solothurn, 49. Solothurner Filmtage
23.01.2014 - 30.01.2014 -
Leipzig, 56. Internationales Leipziger Festival für Dokumentar- und Animationsfilm
28.10.2013 - 03.11.2013 -
Kunming, 5th Yunnan Multiculture Visual Festival Kunming
21.03.2011 - 27.03.2011 -
14e Festival Les Ecrans Documentaires Arceuil
29.10.2010 - 07.11.2010 -
La Rochelle, 38e Festival International du Film de La Rochelle
02.07.2010 - 11.07.2010 -
Buenos Aires, 12° Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independente
07.04.2010 - 18.04.2010 -
Rotterdam, 38th International Film Festival Rotterdam
21.01.2009 - 01.02.2009 -
Leipzig, 51. Internationales Leipziger Festival für Dokumentar- und Animationsfilm
27.10.2008 - 02.11.2008 -
3rd Green Film Festival in Seoul
04.05.2006 - 10.05.2006
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Yamagata City, Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival
07.10.2005 - 13.10.2005 -
Les écrans documentaires
03.12.2004 - 12.12.2004 -
FILMZ Festival des deutschen Kinos Mainz
01.12.2004 - 05.12.2004 -
Kasseler Dokumentarfilm- & Videofest
09.11.2004 - 14.11.2004 -
Duisburg, Duisburger Filmwoche / vhs
08.11.2004 - 14.11.2004 -
Swiss American Film Festival
05.11.2004 - 11.11.2004 -
Cape Town, Encounters: South African International Documentary Festival
18.07.2004 - 27.07.2004 -
Karlovy Vary, 39th International Filmfestival Karlovy Vary
02.07.2004 - 10.07.2004 -
Munich, 19. Internationales Dokumentarfilm Festival München
07.05.2004 - 15.05.2004 -
Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival
14.04.2004 - 25.04.2004 -
Amsterdam, 16th International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam
20.11.2003 - 30.11.2003 -
Locarno, 56. Festival internazionale del film Locarno
06.08.2003 - 16.08.2003