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Alexander Hahn

Director · Born 1967-03-23 · Riga, Latvia

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Biography

Alexander Hahn was born on March 23, 1967 in Riga, Latvia (former USSR), to Olga Hahn, a textile specialist, and Waldemar Hahn, an X-ray engineer, tank commander, wrestling champion of the Soviet Army and passive dissident. Alexander left the Soviet Union together with his parents and his big family - ice-hockey trainer Georg Hahn (uncle), fish selling dancing queen Paula Hahn (grandmother), asthmatic railroad gardener Erwin Hahn (grandfather) and one-toothed Miriamija Zaikina (great-grandmother) - when he was 10 years old. He grew up in Bavaria, Germany. Alexander attended a language school in Munich for a year. One day, while he was traveling to the language school, he saw a movie being made in the Munich subway. Yes, that was his world! After two unsuccessful applications at the film school in Munich, he finally became a student at the Vienna Film Academy. But his time spent at the language school was not in vain! At a film festival, he became an interpreter of the Latvian filmmakers Ivars Seleckis and Talivaldis Margevics. And a short time later he was able to shoot his first 35mm short feature film in Latvia. That was just before the Baltic states declared their independence f…

Directed

  1. Midsummer Madness (2007) — Director
  2. The Last Soviet Movie (2003) — Director
  3. Marching Gaily (2001) — Director
  4. Far Away from St. Petersburg (1993) — Director
  5. Monsieur Taurins (2011) — Director
  6. Taurins Senior (2023) — Director
  7. Éternité (2023) — Director
  8. The Atheist (2018) — Director
  9. Indocam (2022) — Director
  10. Viewers Of Optics (1987) — Director
  11. The Outer Plant (1984) — Director
  12. Random Frequencies #1 (1982) — Director
  13. Moving Vast Amounts Of Water To A Barren Place (2004) — Director
  14. Random Frequencies #2 (1982) — Director
  15. Dirt Site (1990) — Director
  16. Aviation Memories (1986) — Director
  17. Coffeehouse Mysteries — Director
  18. State of Being — Director

Also appeared in

  1. Midsummer Madness (2007) — policeman
  2. The Last Soviet Movie (2003)
  3. State of Being