About

Known credits:
42
Birthday:
1967-03-23
Place of birth:
Riga, Latvia
Website:
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Alexander Hahn

Overview

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 from the Soviet Union. Alexander Hahn is a German citizen (not to be confused with his Swiss namesake who is a filmmaker as well). He immigrated to Austria in 1989, graduated from the Vienna Filmacademy in 1996. His first feature film "Far Away From St. Petersburg" received 1993 the Gold Special Jury Award at the Houston International Film Festival and was shown at the AFI Film Festival in Los Angeles. Worked with: (cast) Maria de Medeiros, Chulpan Khamatova, Dominique Pinon, Tobias Moretti, Orlando Wells, Birgit Minichmayr, Detlev Buck, Roland Düringer, Otto Grünmandl, Yevgenia Kryukova, Daniil Spivakovsky, Erni Mangold, Aurelija Anuzhite, Igor Klass, Gundars Abolins and (crew) Justin Krish, Jerzy Palacz, Milanka Comfort, Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov, Reinhard Schwabenitzky, Hubert Sauper, Markus Pöchinger ... (education) Krzysztof Kieslowski, James V. Hart, Ron Bass, István Szabó, Herz Frank and Talivaldis Margevics.

Known for

Acting
2007 Midsummer Madness Actor policeman 58
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2003 The Last Soviet Movie Actor 58
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Directing
2023 Taurins Senior Directing Director 58
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2023 Éternité Directing Director 59
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2022 Indocam Directing Director N/A
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2018 The Atheist Directing Director 59
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2011 Monsieur Taurins Directing Director 58
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2007 Midsummer Madness Directing Director 58
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2004 Moving Vast Amounts Of Water To A Barren Place Directing Director N/A
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2003 The Last Soviet Movie Directing Director 58
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2001 Marching Gaily Directing Director 59
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1993 Far Away from St. Petersburg Directing Director 59
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1990 Dirt Site Directing Director N/A
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1987 Viewers Of Optics Directing Director N/A
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1986 Aviation Memories Directing Director N/A
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1984 The Outer Plant Directing Director N/A
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1982 Random Frequencies #2 Directing Director N/A
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1982 Random Frequencies #1 Directing Director N/A
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Coffeehouse Mysteries Directing Director N/A
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Writing
2023 Taurins Senior Writing Writer 58
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2023 Éternité Writing Writer 59
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2022 Indocam Writing Writer N/A
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2011 Gas Monopoly Writing Writer 58
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2007 Midsummer Madness Writing Writer 58
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2005 Schön, dass es Dich gibt Writing Writer 58
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2003 The Last Soviet Movie Writing Writer 58
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1994 Morula Writing Writer N/A
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1993 Zahn um Zahn Writing Writer N/A
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Coffeehouse Mysteries Writing Writer N/A
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Production
2023 Taurins Senior Production Producer 58
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2023 Éternité Production Producer 59
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2022 Indocam Production Producer N/A
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2014 Simplify Your Soul Production Co-Producer N/A
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2011 Monsieur Taurins Production Producer 58
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2003 The Last Soviet Movie Production Producer 58
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1991 The Wall Production Executive Producer N/A
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Coffeehouse Mysteries Production Producer N/A
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Sound
2022 Indocam Sound Sound N/A
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1993 Stille Kreise Sound Sound N/A
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Camera
2022 Indocam Camera Director of Photography N/A
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Editing
2023 Éternité Editing Editor 59
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2022 Indocam Editing Editor N/A
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