Hidden Heart
Das Herz des Anderen
Le coeur de l'autre
Switzerland / Germany / South Africa, January 2008
FILM,
Documentary,
95 min.
- directed by
- Cristina Karrer, Werner Swiss Schweizer
- Written by
- Cristina Karrer, Werner Swiss Schweizer
- Status
- In distribution
December 3rd, 1967 – a night that changed the world. The first human heart has been successfully transplanted in Cape Town, South Africa, a country where racial segregation was entrenched as nowhere else in the world. The heart surgeon Christian Barnard shot overnight to fame as no other doctor before or thereafter. However, Barnard didn't write the great success-story of the first heart transplantation alone. Post-Apartheid 2001: Newspapers suddenly claim that Hamilton Naki, the gardener, was equally part of the sensational operation. A story of glamour, injustice and uprising.
credits
- World Premiere
- January 2008
- Original Version
- English, Xhosa (english subtitles), colour, 35mm, 95 min.
- Production
- Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion AG, Lichtblick Film- und Fernsehproduktion GmbH, Big World Cinema, SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen, SRG SSR, WDR - Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln, Bayerischer Rundfunk
- Producer
- Werner Swiss Schweizer
- directed by
- Cristina Karrer, Werner Swiss Schweizer
- Written by
- Cristina Karrer, Werner Swiss Schweizer
- Cinematography
- Michael Hammon
- Editing
- Patricia Wagner
- Location Sound Mix
- Jow Dlamini
World Sales / World Rights
- World Sales
- WIDE
Worldwide Distribution
- Germany
-
Real Fiction Filmverleih
Distribution
Release date: 01.05.2008 - Switzerland
- Look Now! Distribution
Awards
(a selection)
- Zürich, Filmpreis Stadt Zürich, Zürcher Filmpreis 2008 (Winner)
Festivals
(a selection)
-
Yamagata City, 15th Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival
05.10.2017 - 12.10.2017 -
Iran International Documentary Film Festival
15.10.2009 - 19.10.2009 -
Teheran, 27th Fajr International Film Festival Tehran
01.02.2009 - 11.02.2009 -
Kasseler Dokumentarfilm- & Videofest
11.11.2008 - 16.11.2008 -
Seville, 5th Sevilla Festival de Cine Europeo
07.11.2008 - 15.11.2008 -
St. Petersburg, Film Festival Time To Live
28.03.2008 - 06.04.2008 -
Solothurn, Solothurner Filmtage
21.01.2008 - 27.01.2008