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About Hanno Höfer
- Hanno Höfer (born 8 July 1967 in Timisoara, Romania) is a German-Romanian movie director, producer and musician. When he was about one year old, he moved to Bucharest due to his parents' work (his father was a journalist and his mother worked first for a newspaper and later in television), but when their home was damaged in the 1977 earthquake, he returned to the Banat region where he stayed for 4 years at his grandparents' home.
- Then he went back to Bucharest to attend the German Lyceum.
- After graduation, he failed the university entrance examination to study foreign languages in Bucharest, so he worked for a while as a translator in Bucharest and then as an actor at the German Theater in Timisoara.
- In 1988, he emigrated with his family to Germany. Between 1990 and 1992 he studied South-Eastern European History and Ehtnology in Berlin, then he had a scholarship at the Babe?-Bolyai University in Cluj, and later, between 1994–1998, he studied Movies and Directing at the Academy for Theatre and Film in Bucharest.
- Here he met Cristian Mungiu, with whom later (and with the cameraman Oleg Mutu) he established the production company "Mobra Films". He directed a few short movies amongst which Telefon în Strainatate (International Phone Call), Dincolo (on the other side) and Ajutoare umanitare (Humanitarian Aid).
- Those brought him 3 prizes, at the Munich International Festival of Film Schools, at the Bucharest's CineMAiubit Festival and the grand prize of the Cottbus Film Festival of East European Cinema.
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