Films by Josef Hader

Germany 2011, 74 min
by Sobo Swobodnik

Frucade or advocaat?, was heavyweight Hermes Phettberg’s ritual opening question in the "Nette Leit" cult show which was broadcast daily on Austrian television in the 1990s, when they still dared to let loose on humanity an openly gay sadomasochistic provocateur. Today Phettberg is Austria’s most prominent welfare recipient and constantly in and out of hospitals with an impressive list of strokes, bladder weakness and a heart attack. He shuffles ponderously, humpbacked and 100 kilos lighter thro