Catching Haider

a film by Nathalie Borgers

Catching Haider

2015 | 91:00 min

Formal Categories

Biography / Portrait Current Affairs History Society Politics

Content Categories

Documentary
Synopsis
Dead in a car crash in 2008, Joerg Haider, former leader of Austria’s Freedom Party, was the first to bring a far right populist party to power in Europe. CATCHING HAIDER is a subjective voyage inHaider’s political, geographical, familial, and emotional world, seeking to glimpse the real person behind Haider's contradictory personas, his goals, and his strategies, and finally identifying the illusionary and deceptive methods of populist politics which have since spread all over Europe.
Festivals/Awards
Honorable Mention DOK.national - DOK.fest Munich; Zurich, Docpoint Helsinki
Cast and Crew
  • Director Nathalie Borgers
  • Producer Kurt Mayer
  • Director of Photography Helmut Wimmer
  • Editor Elke Groen
  • Sound Bruno Pisek
  • Score Thierry Zaboitzeff
Original Languages

German

French

World Sales Company
Deckert Distribution GmbH
Gottschedstr. 18, 04109 Leipzig

Phone: +49 341 2156638

info@deckert-distribution.com
http://www.deckert-distribution.com
Co-Production Company
ma.ja.de. Filmproduktions GmbH
Germany
www.majade.de
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