Johanna Lier Movies
- 1989
In this meditative, poetic comedy, a strait-laced young bureaucrat has been informed that, rather than being promoted, he is being apprenticed to the town archivist in anticipation of taking over his job whenever the old man retires, which doesn't look like it will happen anytime soon. A vengeful anarchist sets the town hall aflood, and something changes in the minds of the lad and his new mentor, so that we see them happily folding soggy, ruined official forms into boats and sending them down the river. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Magali Noël, Michel Robin, (more)
- 1989
Martin (Matthias Habich) has a settled and materially successful life. During his birthday party, he begins to have qualms about the whole thing, and escapes a life that has suddenly become claustrophobic by going to Paris. There, he has a quick one-night stand with a young girl, an encounter which he wishes was more meaningful to her. He attempts to see her again, and eventually finds that she has been injured while participating in a political protest. Meanwhile, his wife understands what is going on and sympathizes with him - which only adds to his frustrations. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Matthias Habich, Johanna Lier, (more)
- 1985
Swiss documentary filmmaker Fredi M. Murer turned to fiction-and near-surrealism--with Alpine Fire. Thomas Nock plays The Boy, a mute teenager who falls in love with his own sister Belli (Johanna Lier). The Boy is isolated on his family farm by his parents, who aren't cognizant of his feelings towards Belli when they order her to educate him at home rather than send him to school. Unable to reconcile himself to his yearnings, The Boy runs off to a secluded alpine cabin. The deaths of the parents--one by natural causes, the other by murder-leaves The Boy and Belli alone at last. Filmed in 1985, Alpine Fire was released to the American film-festival circuit two years later. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Johanna Lier, Dorothea Moritz, (more)
